Egypt:
- Isaiah 19, 30, and 31;
- Jeremiah 46; and
- Ezekiel 29, 30, 31, and 32.
So-Called Committee of Wise Men (Council of Wise Men):
- Naguib Sawiris: billionaire businessman, chairman of Orascom Telecom, shareholder of Mobinil, owner of TV stations and newspaper Al Shorouk;
- Ahmed Kamal Aboul Magd [Kamal Abdul Magd, Ahmed Kamal Abou El Magd, Kamal Abul-Magd]: professor of constitutional law at Cairo University, served as minister of information under President Anwar Sadat, former president of the National Council of Human Rights, Ibrahim al-Moalem's father-in-law;
- Amr Hamzawy: political scientist and senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut;
- Amr Moussa: secretary general of the League of Arab States, former Egyptian foreign minister;
- Nabil Elaraby [Nabil al-Arabi, Nabil El Araby, Nabil El-Arabi]: former judge in the International Court of Justice, permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations, former ambassador;
- Nabil Fahmy: former president of Egypt's top administrative court, past ambassador to the United States, dean of American University in Cairo;
- Amr el-Shobaki [Amr El Shobaky, Amr Elshobaki, Amr Al Shobaky]: columnist, analyst for Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies;
- Ammar Sherie [Ammar al-Sheri’ey]: musician;
- Yahya Gamal [Yehia al-Gamal, Gamal Yahia]: international law professor;
- George Isaac: leader of the Kefayah group;
- Ibrahim al-Moalem [Ibrahim El Moallem, Ibrahim El Moalim, Ibrahim Moallem, Ibrahim El-Meallem]: media mogul, vice-president of the International Publishers Association;
- Mansour Hassan [Makram Mohamed Ahmed Mansour Hassan]: former information minister;
- Ahmad Zuweila [Ahmed Zeweil, Ahmed Zuweil, Ahmed Zewail, Ahmed Hassan Zewail]: Chemistry Nobel Laureate;
- Mohamed Selim El-Awwa: lawyer;
- Magdi Yaqoub [Magdi Habib Yacoub]: Egyptian heart surgeon, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London;
- Gamil Mattar: political analyst;
- Diaa Rashwan: political analyst at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies;
- Mohamed Selim Al-Awa [Mohammad Selim al-Awa, Muhammad Salim Al-Awa]: professor, author, lawyer; and
- Said al-Badawi: president of the Wafd party.