18 Facts About Hossam el-Hamalawy

Hossam el-Hamalawy is a member of the Revolutionary Socialists and the Center for Socialist Studies.

Hossam el-Hamalawy later joined the Los Angeles Times as a correspondent in Cairo.

Hossam el-Hamalawy worked as a managing editor for the leftist daily El-Badeel and was the founding managing editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm's English Edition as well as being one of founding editorial team of Ahram Online.

Hossam el-Hamalawy belongs to the second generation of the organization which joined the movement in the second half of the 1990s.

Hossam el-Hamalawy was later an invited as guest speaker at lectures at AUC nonetheless.

Hossam el-Hamalawy was picked up after one week from the start of the protests by the.

Hossam el-Hamalawy was detained with other youth activists at al-Gamaliyya Police Station and was released shortly afterward.

Since May 2006, Hossam el-Hamalawy maintained a blog on the website The Arabist.

Hossam el-Hamalawy claimed several cases of torture by the military police towards the demonstrators and about the attacks to uncover virginity, which were widely raised in Egyptian public opinion afterward.

Hossam el-Hamalawy said the statement could signal a new wave of arrests against revolutionary groups like the Revolutionary Socialists, which organizes labor movements.

The group which Hossam el-Hamalawy is a member of, came under criticism in state media after footage of a group meeting showed, Sameh Naguib saying popular pressure must be built against the military to remove Mubarak's loyalists.

Hossam el-Hamalawy said that they saw this move by the SCAF coming a while ago and will continue due to other political forces are withdrawing from the streets.

Hossam el-Hamalawy described them as "theater" that would serve to solidify the old guard, but with different faces.

Hossam el-Hamalawy boycotted the 2012 Egyptian Shura Council election and boycotting the 2012 Egyptian presidential election citing the same reasons.

Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that those particular groups often make the mistake of depending on tyrannical governments for supporting armed resistance against Israel.

Hossam el-Hamalawy condemned the description by prominent Muslim cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi of the uprising as a Shia Muslim insurrection against Sunni Muslim rule.

Hossam el-Hamalawy added that a complete freedom must be given to the Egyptian workers to establish their own independent unions.

Hossam el-Hamalawy denounced the Rabaa Massacre and stood against the police crackdown on the Brotherhood.