Mohamed Abou El-Ghar

Who is Mohamed Abou El-Ghar?

Dr. Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, also spelled Abul-Ghar, or Aboulghar is an Egyptian professor of gynecology at the Cairo University and a political activist.

Abou El-Ghar studied medicine at the Cairo University, and received his doctoral degree in 1969. As a doctor, he acquired prominence as Egypt's pioneer of in vitro fertilisation. During the rule of Hosni Mubarak, he founded with other professors the "March 9th Movement for the Independence of Universities" against the security control on the Egyptian universities. During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, he demanded democratisation of Egyptian universities.

After the 2011 Egyptian revolution Abou El-Ghar founded with some Egyptian political activists, including Amr Hamzawy, and Daoud Abdel Sayed, the left liberal Egyptian Social Democratic Party. Moreover, he is a spokesman of the National Association for Change close to Mohamed ElBaradei.

He has been on the board of trustees of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development