Amr Hamzawy
| Amr Hamzawy عمرو حمزاوى |
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Amr Hamzawy in 2011
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| Member of Parliament of Egypt | |
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Assumed office 23 January 2012 |
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| Constituency | Cairo—Heliopolis |
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28 October 1967 Minya, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian, German(Until 2012) |
| Political party | President of Freedom Egypt Party |
| Spouse(s) | Basma Hassan |
| Occupation | Professor of political science |
| Known for | Political Activist |
Amr Hamzawy (Arabic: عمرو حمزاوى, IPA: [ˈʕɑmɾe ħæmˈzæːwi]; born 1967) is an Egyptian political scientist, human rights activist and public intellectual.
Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin. After finishing his doctoral studies and after five years of teaching in Cairo and Berlin, Hamzawy joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC between 2005 and 2009 as a senior associate for Middle East politics. Between 2009 and 2010, he served as the research director of the Middle East Center of the Carnegie Endowment in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2011, he joined the Department of Public Policy and Administration at the American University in Cairo, where he continues to serve today. Hamzawy also serves as an associate professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, Cairo University.
His research and teaching interests as well as his academic publications focus on democratization processes in Egypt, tensions between freedom and repression in the Egyptian public space, political movements and civil society in Egypt, contemporary debates in Arab political thought, and human rights and governance in the Arab world.
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