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Mona Makram-Ebeid

 The Honorable Mona Makram-Ebeid is a Distinguished Lecturer of Political Science at the American University in Cairo since 2005.

Since then, she gas been a prolific writer for a variety of national and international newspapers. Mona Makram Ebeid was a Member of Parliament in Egypt from 1990 to 1995. After her bachelor degree at Cairo University, she obtained her M.A.at the American University in Cairo and her M.P.A at the John F. Kennedy School of Governement of Harvard University in 1982, with specializations in Middle-Eastern politics, International Development, Management in Developing Countries and Micro-Economics.

In 1987, she became a member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights before entering the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Lecturer of Contemporary Politics in the Middle East.

She received several awards, such as the Distinguished Alumni Award (AUC) in 1999, the Officier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2008 and the Distinguished Annual Award for Women by the AMADEUS Institute in 2013. In addition to having served on the Committees of Education, Budget, and Foreign Affairs, she was also an advisor for the World Bank MENA region and a consultant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

She is an Officier de la Légion d’honneur.^{[citation needed]}

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Mona Makram Ebeid, a TAKREEM selection board member, was appointed in February 2020 Advisor to the UN High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, due her role and experiences in intercultural and interfaith dialogue and promoting tolerance.

Makram Ebeid appreciated the efforts of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, which worked to benefit from the wisdom and experience of religious leaders from all communities in building peace and rejecting violence. She was an Advisor to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in 2012 and served on the Committee for Policy Development (UN, 2001-2004).

She is an Advisor to the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, and is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo. Between 1989 and 2005, she was successively Lecturer on Arab Political Thought, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo.

Makram Ebeid is a graduate of Harvard University, the American University in Cairo and Cairo University. She was a member of the World Bank’s Council of Advisors for the Middle East & North Africa Region.

A Fulbright scholar and a renowned lecturer, she participates in numerous conferences and roundtables around the world.

Makram-Ebeid joined between 1990 and 1995 the People’s Assembly of the Egyptian Parliament, founded the Egyptian Council for International Affairs in 1998, then sit as Senator in the Shoura from 2012 to 2013. Mona Makram Ebeid is scheduled to participate in the coalition’s agenda in the coming period, and her support for youth initiatives aimed at promoting citizenship, accepting the other and rejecting violence.

In 2016, she received a fellowship at the MIT Center for International Studies.

Egyptian politician and academic

Mona Makram-Ebeid (Arabic: منى مكرم عبيد; born 20 March 1943 in Qena) 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.