Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Egyptian political activist
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Place of Birth: Shibin Al Kawm, Al Minufiyah, Monufia Governorate, Egypt
About Mohamed Abou El-Ghar
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- Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, also spelled Abul-Ghar, or Aboulghar (Egyptian Arabic: ???? ??? ??????, IPA: [mæ'hæmmæd abu l'?????]; born 2 July 1940 in Shibin El Kom, Egypt) is an Egyptian professor of gynecology at the Cairo University and a political activist. Abou El-Ghar studied medicine at the Cairo University, and received his doctoral degree in 1969.
- As a doctor, he acquired prominence as Egypt's pioneer of in vitro fertilisation.
- During the rule of Hosni Mubarak, he founded with other professors the "March 9th Movement for the Independence of Universities" against the security control on the Egyptian universities.
- During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, he demanded democratisation of Egyptian universities.After the 2011 Egyptian revolution Abou El-Ghar founded with some Egyptian political activists, including Amr Hamzawy, and Daoud Abdel Sayed, the left liberal Egyptian Social Democratic Party.
- Moreover, he is a spokesman of the National Association for Change close to Mohamed ElBaradei.He has been on the board of trustees of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development
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