Amr Hamzawy

Amr Hamzawy (Arabic: عمرو حمزاوى, pronunciation Egyptian Arabic: ʕɑmɾ ħæmzæ ː wi; born 1967) is an Egyptian political scientist, human rights activist, journalist and politician.

Life

Hamzawy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cairo in Egypt. He then received his Masters degree in Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam and another from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. During his studies he was a fellow of the Hanns Seidel Foundation. From 1998 to 2003 he was a research associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In 2000 he was appointed as a consultant for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. He was awarded his doctorate in 2002 by the Free University of Berlin.

From 2003 to 2004 he taught as a professor of political science at Cairo University. Between 2003 and 2005 he took part in several events of the Bergedorf Round Table on International Policy of the Körber Foundation. From January 2005 to February 2011 he was Research Director at the Carnegie Middle East Cente in Beirut and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Democracy and Rule of Law Program. He also has a bimonthly column in the Arabic-language newspaper al -Hayat. After a critical article about the constitutional amendment by the government of Hosni Mubarak in 2006 accused him close to the state media to try to prepare for an alliance between the United States and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. A former confidant of the ousted president Mubarak meanwhile claimed that Hamzawy, a former member of the National Democratic Party was that he had left only angry about disappointing career opportunities. Hamzawy says, however, that he had only attended a few meetings of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Party in 2003, but I quickly lost interest.

During the revolution in Egypt 2011 was Hamzawy member of the self-proclaimed " Council of the Wise ", which was used to deliver the protesters and the government negotiations and possible solutions. He is also since April 2011 a member of the National Council for Human Rights. After the appointment of Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister Amr Hamzawy was offered the position of youth minister. Hamzawy refused the post from though. He has since been involved in the project of forming a liberal party in Egypt - the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. However, he left the party and was elected chairman of the party's liberal Egypt ( part of the alliance The Revolution Continues ), whose founding member is Amr Hamzawy. In 2012 he was elected to the Cairo district of Heliopolis in parliament. Hamzawy condemned the overthrow of President Mohammed Mursi by the military in July 2013. He was then subjected to defamation, who accused him of the disempowered Muslim Brotherhood are almost.

Hamzawy was married to a German, with whom he has two children and from whom he is divorced. On February 15, 2012, he married the Egyptian actress Basma Hassan.

Publications

  • Tensions between continuity and change in contemporary Arab thought. Intellectual debates of the 90s. Dissertation, FU Berlin 2002
  • Contemporary political thought in the Arab world. Continuity and change. German Orient Institute, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89173-089-6
  • Nathan J. Brown: Between Religion and Politics. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC 2010, ISBN 978-0-87003-256-1
  • Civil Society in the Middle East. Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89930-027-0
  • Friedemann Büttner, Ferhad Ibrahim: Religion, State and Politics in the Middle East. Festschrift for Friedemann Büttner. Lit Verlag, Münster, 2003, ISBN 3-82586-870-2
  • European integration. Lessons Learned. Center for European Studies, Cairo University, 2006.
  • With Anthony Chase: Human Rights in the Arab World. Independent voices. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8122-2032-2
  • With Marina Ottaway: Getting to Pluralism. Political Actors in the Arab World. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, 2009. ISBN 978-0-87003-245-5
  • Powell's seed germinates. In: Navid Kermani, Michael Thumann (ed.): Islam and the West. Berliner Taschenbuch -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-83330-075-2, pp. 55-62. or The Time, No. 8, 2003.
  • Modernity, authenticity and globalization. Regarding the current controversy of Arab intellectuals. In: Religion, State and Politics in the Middle East. 2003, pp. 54-87.
  • The globalization of risk and interdependence of religion, politics and violence (PDF, 697 kB ) Comment on Jochen Hippler: war, repression, terrorism. Political Violence and Civilization in Western and Muslim societies. Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart 2006, pp. 155-181.
  • With Dina Bishara: Islamist Movements in the Arab World and the 2006 Lebanon War. (PDF, 916 kB) Carnegie Papers no. 75, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 2006.
  • With Marina Ottaway, Nathan J. Brown: What Islamists Need to be Clear About. The Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. (PDF, 74 kB) Policy Outlook, February 2007, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Nathan J. Brown, Michele Dunne: Egypt 's Controversial Constitutional Amendments. (PDF, 105 kB) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2007.
  • Nathan J. Brown: Arab spring fever. In The National Interest, No. 91, September / October 2007.
  • Nathan J. Brown: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Islamist Participation in a Closing Political Environment. (PDF, 474 kB) Carnegie Papers, No. 19, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2010.
  • Sarah Grebowski: From Violence to Moderation. Al- Jama'a al - Islamiya and al - Jihad. (PDF, 291 kB) Carnegie Papers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 2010.
  • Participation of Islamists in Arab politics. In: From Politics and History, 24/2010, Bundeszenztrale for Civic Education, June 5, 2010.
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