Abdallah Kamal (1965 – 13 June 2014) was an

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journalist and politician.

Biography

Kamal graduated from

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, having studied in the faculty of mass communications. He became editor-in-chief of '' Rose al-Youssef'', a weekly magazine owned by the

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, in July 2005. He served in the post until 2011. Kamal was known as an opponent of the

Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ('' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar, Imam and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. Al-Banna's teachings s ...

. He became an MP for the National Democratic Party in the Shoura Council from 2007 to 2011. He founded his own news website, dotmasr.eg. He was also advisor to the '' Al Rai'' newspaper of

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and a contributor to

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. He died of a heart attack aged 49 on 13 July 2014.

References

1965 births 2014 deaths Cairo University alumni Egyptian journalists Members of the Shura Council National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians {{Egypt-politician-stub