1. Hamed Abdel-Samad came to Germany in 1995 at the age of 23.
12 Facts About Hamed Abdel-Samad
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Hamed Abdel-Samad soon married a "rebellious, left-wing teacher with a penchant for mysticism" who was 18 years older than himself.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad studied Japanese, English and French in Cairo as well as political science in Augsburg.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad worked as a scholar in Erfurt and Braunschweig.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad taught and conducted research until the end of 2009 at the Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich; his dissertation topic was: Bild der Juden in agyptischen Schulbuchern.
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On 24 November 2013, Egyptian news websites reported that Hamed Abdel-Samad had been kidnapped.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad became known to the German public through his book Mein Abschied vom Himmel.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad said that the book was neither an attack on his culture, nor a call to abandon the Muslim faith.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad criticized the German political establishment for appeasing Islam, while ignoring fears about Islam.
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Between May 2015 and April 2019, Hamed Abdel-Samad presented the weekly show Sunduq al-Islam, in which he discussed various topics of Islamic religious history, as well as contemporary Muslim reality.
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In September 2019, Hamed Abdel-Samad started a new show called Sunduq al-Insan, which was intended to cover a wider scope of historical and social topics.
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Hamed Abdel-Samad denied all these accusation, stating that he only defends human rights and international laws.