Hamed Abdel-Samad

Political Scientist

Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian political scientist and author.

He has worked for the UNESCO in Geneva, the department of Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and the Department of Modern History at the University of Munich.

Mr. Abdel-Samad is the author of “Mein Abschied vom Himmel” (Farewell to Heaven), 2009, Fackelträger Publishing house, Cologne — and “Der Untergang der islamischen Welt” (The Collapse of the Islamic World), 2010, Droemer Publishing house, Munich.

He studied in Egypt, Japan and Germany.