Amr Hamzawy

Amr Hamzawy

Amr Hamzawy

  • Former Senior Research Scholar, CDDRL

Biography

Amr Hamzawy is the director of the Carnegie Middle East Program. He studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin. He was previously an associate professor of political science at Cairo University and a professor of public policy at the American University in Cairo.

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. His new book On The Habits of Neoauthoritarianism – Politics in Egypt Between 2013 and 2019 appeared in Arabic in September 2019.

Hamzawy is a former member of the People’s Assembly after being elected in the first Parliamentary elections in Egypt after the January 25, 2011 revolution. He is also a former member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. Hamzawy contributes a weekly op-ed to the Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi.

 

publications

Books
October 2022

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

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Commentary
September 2021

Democracy and Autocracy, Volume 19(2), September 2021

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In The News

Rima Majed
News

Mofeed-19 Discusses the Pandemic's Impact on Lebanon's Sectarian Politics

Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University of Beirut, joins ARD scholars Amr Hamzawy and Hesham Sallam on the sixth episode of Mofeed-19, a 19-minute video podcast that discusses research efforts pertaining to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Arab world.
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Adly Makram-Ebeid Sallam Hamzawy
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Mofeed-19 Podcast Explores the Pandemic's Impact on Vulnerable Labor in Egypt

The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL, in partnership with the Arab Studies Institute, is pleased to announce the release of the fifth episode of Mofeed-19, a 19-minute video podcast that discusses research efforts pertaining to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Arab world.
cover link Mofeed-19 Podcast Explores the Pandemic's Impact on Vulnerable Labor in Egypt
Ibrahim Nasrallah
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Mofeed-19 Discusses Impact of COVID-19 on Arab Literary Production

The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL, in partnership with the Arab Studies Institute, is pleased to announce the release of the fourth episode of Mofeed-19, a 19-minute video podcast that discusses research efforts pertaining to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Arab world.
cover link Mofeed-19 Discusses Impact of COVID-19 on Arab Literary Production