Amr Hamzawy

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Amr Hamzawy (2011)

Amr Hamzawy ( Arabic عمرو حمزاوى, Pronunciation Egyptian-Arabic : ˈʕɑmɾ ħæmˈzæːwi ; * October 28, 1967 ) is an Egyptian political scientist , human rights activist , publicist and politician.

Life

Hamzawy received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University . 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 received a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation . From 1998 to 2003 he taught as a research assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 2000 he was appointed as an appraiser for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development . He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 2002 .

From 2003 to 2004 he taught political science at Cairo University. Between 2003 and 2005 he took part in several events of the Bergedorf Round Table for International Politics of the Körber Foundation . From January 2005 to February 2011, he was Director of Research at Carnegie Middle East Cente in Beirut and Senior Associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . He also has a twice-monthly column in the Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat . After a critical article about the constitutional amendment by the government of Hosni Mubarak in 2006, state-affiliated media accused him of wanting to prepare an alliance between the United States and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood . A former confidante of the now ousted President Mubarak alleged that Hamzawy was a former member of the National Democratic Party , whom he left only out of anger over disappointed promotion opportunities. Hamzawy, on the other hand, says that he only attended a few meetings of the party's foreign policy committee in 2003, but that he quickly lost interest.

During the 2011 revolution in Egypt , Hamzawy was a member of the self-proclaimed “Council of Wise Men”, which was set up to offer negotiations and possible solutions to protesters and the government. He has also been a member of the National Council for Human Rights since April 2011. After Ahmed Schafiq was appointed Prime Minister , Amr Hamzawy was offered the position of Minister for Youth. Hamzawy turned down the post. 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 became chairman of the Freedom Egypt party (part of the alliance The Revolution Goes On ), of which Amr Hamzawy is a founding member. In 2012 he was elected to parliament as a member of the Cairo district of Heliopolis . Hamzawy condemned the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in July 2013. He then felt exposed to defamations that accused him of being close to the disempowered Muslim Brotherhood.

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

Fonts

Monographs
  • On the tension between continuity and change in contemporary Arab thought. Intellectual debates of the 1990s. Dissertation, FU Berlin 2002
  • Contemporary Political Thought in the Arab World. Continuity and change. German Orient Institute, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89173-089-6
  • with Nathan J. Brown: Between Religion and Politics. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC 2010, ISBN 978-0-87003-256-1
Editorships
  • Civil Society in the Middle East. Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89930-027-0
  • with 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
Articles and essays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Amr Hamzawy ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), biography at the Körber Foundation .
  2. ↑ Author's statement on Powell's seed germinates. Time, 08/2003.
  3. ^ Title Thesen Temperamente , broadcast on February 21, 2011, Das Erste.
  4. ↑ "The citizens are back in the political game." Amr Hamzawy in conversation with Silvia Engels, Deutschlandfunk, February 8, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b Martin Gehlen: Where to go with Mubarak? In: Zeit Online , February 6, 2011.
  6. ↑ Amr Hamzawy. In: Egyptian Elections Watch , Ahram Online and Jadaliyya, November 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ "A great victory for the Egyptians." Amr Hamzawy in conversation with Silvia Engels, Deutschlandfunk, April 13, 2011.
  8. ↑ لجنة الحكماء: أبو المجد مقررا عاما وعمرو حمزاوي متحدثا رسميا
  9. ↑ Amr Hamzawy refuses the position of Minister of Youth - Al Wafd
  10. ↑ Hamzawy: Current regime is trying to silence pro-democracy voices. AhramOnline, August 5, 2013.
  11. ↑ "We Democrats are on the hunt" Zeit Online, August 9, 2013.
  12. ↑ Ekram Ibrahim: Love smiles on Egyptian parliamentarian. Ahram Online, February 16, 2012, accessed February 17, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamzawy, Amr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian political scientist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Egypt