Hossam el-Hamalawy
| Hossam el-Hamalawy (Arabic: حسام الحملاوى) |
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Hossam Mohamed Rashad el-Hamalawy July 14, 1977 Egypt |
| Residence | Cairo, Egypt |
| Alma mater | American University in Cairo |
| Political party | Revolutionary Socialists |
| Parent(s) | Mohamed Rashad el-Hamalawy and Magda |
 Hossam el-Hamalawy talking about 2006 Mahalla strike during Marxism festival of 2008 on YouTube
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Hossam el-Hamalawy (Arabic: حسام الحملاوى, IPA: [ħoˈsæːm elħæmæˈlæːwi]; AKA 3arabawy عرباوى, [ʕɑɾˤɑˈbɑːwi]; born 14 July 1977) is an Egyptian journalist, blogger, photographer and socialist activist. He is a member of the Revolutionary Socialists and the Center for Socialist Studies.
El-Hamalawy started working as a journalist in 2002 for the English language Cairo Times, where he covered protests, trials of dissidents and police torture news. He later joined the Los Angeles Times as a correspondent in Cairo. El-Hamalawy also freelanced for a broad array of local and foreign news organizations, including Bloomberg News and the BBC, and worked as a researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW). He also worked as a managing editor for the leftist daily El-Badeel and was the founding managing editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm's English Edition as well as being one of founding editorial team of Ahram Online.
El-Hamalawy was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism in UC Berkeley, in 2007. He is regarded as "influential" according to a diplomatic cable sent by US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. in 2007.
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