Mohamed Kamal

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Mohamed Mostafa Kamal is a Political Science Professor at Cairo University, and a prominent member of a generation of new reformers, led by Gamal Mubarak, in Egypt's National Democratic Party (NDP). A political scientist by training, Mohamed Kamal is both a commentator and analyst of Egyptian, as well as regional, current affairs. He is credited for being one of the primary architects of the 2005 re-election campaign of President Hosni Mubarak. [1]

[edit] Education

Kamal was born in the coastal city of Port Said in 1965, graduating from the School of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in 1987. His high academic standing guaranteed him a faculty position at the same university.

A year after graduation, he won a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University prestigious Bologna Center in Italy, where he earned a diploma in international relations. He moved to Canada, where he received his master’s degree in international development from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa, a finishing school for Canadian diplomats. [2]

He would return to the United States for his Ph.D. in international relations/political science at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), again at Johns Hopkins University [3]. While working on his dissertation titled “The Role of the US Congress in Making American Foreign Policy,” he served as a researcher for noted think-tanks including the U.S. Institute for Peace and Middle East Institute. [4]

He also won a fellowship from the American Political Science Association to work as a Congressional Fellow. He spent almost a year working closely with members of Congress. [5] After finishing his Ph.D. in 2000, he returned to Egypt to resume teaching at Cairo University.

[edit] Current Positions

In addition to to teaching at Cairo University, Kamal is also the Deputy Director of the Center for American Studies at the University. [6]

As far as his involvement in public service, Kamal holds an array of positions in Egypt's political life. He is a member of the Shura Council (the upper House of Egypt's parliament), serving on the Education and Youth Committee. [7] He is also a member of the General Secretariat of the ruling National Democratic Party.

In 2005, he was appointed Secretary of Political Education & Training in the NDP. He is also a member of the Policies Secretariat, heading the Youth Committee, in the NDP. [8]