Hani Shukrallah was born in Egypt in 1950 and studied Political Science. He worked as editor-in-chief at ‘Al-Ahram Weekly’; in his column ‘Reflections’ he wrote about the Egyptian state and political society, political Islam, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, “the War on Terror” and Iraq. He is a member of the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR), the NGO “Arabs Against Discrimination”, and the Centre for Arab and African Research. Shukrallah currently works at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo.
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