Sameh Egyptson

Sameh Egyptson (born 1966 as Sameh Nabeh Basely Khalil) is an Egyptian-born Swedish writer and academic in the field of interreligious relations at the Humanities and Theology Faculties at Lund University.

Biography
Sameh Nabeh Basely Khalil was born on September 8, 1966, in Aswan, Egypt but grew up in Cairo in a Coptic Christian family. After high school, he studied Middle Eastern and Egyptian history at Ain Shams University, while also studying at the Coptic Institute in Cairo.

Khalil moved to Sweden as a political refugee in 1990 and took the name "Egyptson" in 2001. In Sweden, he studied language, Islamic studies, and religious studies at Uppsala and Lund Universities.

In media
On February 23, 2023, a seminar was held in Sweden's Riksdag (Sweden's Parliament) where Egyptson was invited by member of parliament Robert Hannah from the Liberals to present his PhD thesis. There, Egyptson criticized the Swedish politicians who he claimed have given power to an ultra-conservative group to represent Muslims in Sweden.