Mona Makram-Ebeid

Mona Makram-Ebeid is an Egyptian politician and academic, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the American University of Cairo.[1]

Life

From a Coptic Wafdist family prominent in Egyptian politics, Mona Makram-Ebeid was inspired and learnt much from her uncle as a child, the politician Makram Ebeid.[2] She was educated at Harvard University, the University of Cairo and the American University of Cairo.[1]

She joined the Wafd Party in 1983, but from 1990 to 1995 was appointed by President Mubarak as a member of the People's Assembly of Egypt. She returned to the Wafd Party, though left that to join Ayman Nour’s El-Ghad Party. Rejoining the Wafd Party, she resigned for a third time after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, criticizing the actions of the coalition between the Wafd party and the Muslim Brotherhood.[2]

References
  1. The International Who's Who of Women, 3rd ed., Europa Publications: London, 2002, p.357
  2. Mona Makram Ebeid, eniGma, November 1, 2011.
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