Mahmoud Refaat (Arabic: محمود رفعت‎, romanized: Mahmood Rifaat; born April 25, 1978) is an international relations scholar (president of the

European Institute for International Law and International Relations The European Institute for International Law and International Relations (EIIR) in French (Institut européen pour le Droit international et les Relations internationales) is an independent policy institute and N.P. organisation based in Paris, ...

), writer, and lawyer. Refaat was born in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

. He managed the presidential campaign of former Egyptian Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General

Sami Anan Lieutenant General Sami Hafez Anan or Enan ( ar, سامى حافظ عنان, ; born 2 February 1948) is an Egyptian military officer. He was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces from 2005 until August 2012, until his retirement was ...

during

2018 Egyptian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Egypt between 26 and 28 March 2018, though Egyptian diaspora, Egyptians abroad voted from 16 to 18 March 2018. On 19 January, incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi formally announced he would run for a seco ...

. He also established the International Action Group for Peace in

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Su ...

and the Humanitarian Action Group for

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Biography

Refaat is a French-Belgian citizen of Egyptian origin. He was born in

. In 2018, Mahmoud Refaat managed the presidential campaign of former Egyptian Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General

from abroad. On May 12, 2018, Mahmoud Refaat and former Libyan Prime Minister

Omar al-Hassi Omar al-Hassi ( ar, عمر الحاسي) (born March 30, 1959 in Benghazi, Libya) is a professor of political science at University of Benghazi in Libyan politician. He was the prime minister of the General National Congress-led National Salvation ...

founded the International Action Group for Peace in

and assumed the position of General Coordinator. The group aims to put an end to civil war in Libya, and to work with the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individua ...

(ICC). In March 2019, Refaat launched the Humanitarian Action Group for

Selected publications

Some of his publications are: * ''Islamic Terrorism, Myth and Reality'', 2021, . * ''Islamophobia: Roots, Consequences and Solutions'', 2021, . * ''International Law and Global Governance'', 2019, . * ''Role of International Law in International Politics'', 2017, . * ''The Role of the International Criminal Court in the International Peace'', 2013, . * ''International Economic Sanctions in International law and In Practice'', 2014, . * ''Ethics and Religion in International Relations – Usage and Investment'', 2012, . * ''The Complementarity of National and International Criminal Legal Systems'', 2011, .

References

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