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Basem Kamel (or Bassem Kamel) (December 6, 1969), an Egyptian architect and politician, a former member of the Egyptian Parliment, and currently the first deputy head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party.

Biography
He was born in Cairo on December 6, 1969. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Department of Architectural Engineering. He also obtained a diploma in project management from the American University in Cairo in 2007. He began political work with the commencement of the change wave in Egypt and the announcement of Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei about his intention to run for the presidency of the Republic in 2009, so he was one of the first founding members of the popular campaign to support ElBaradei and the demands for change, and became one of its leaders, as he was responsible for organizing the campaign until the revolution of January 25, 2011, then he became a member of the executive office of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition, which was founded before the events of the revolution of January 25, 2011 and since the announcement of the date of the demonstrations on Police Day, he participated in its organization and stayed a member until the dissolution of the coalition 2012

After Mubarak’s overthrow and his abandonment of power, Bassem Kamel went with a group of revolutionary youth and many prominent politicians to found the Egyptian Social Democratic Party in March 2011 headed by Dr. Muhammad Abu Al-Ghar. He was one of the founding members and a member of the party’s steering committee, then a member of its executive office in 2012, and then the party’s secretary of culture in 2015, until he was elected as the first vice president of the party, Farid Zahran, in April 2016.

He was part of the popular diplomacy delegation that traveled to Uganda and Ethiopia after the 2011 revolution to hold talks with officials there on the Nile Basin crisis.

He ran in the Egyptian Parliament elections 2011-2012 on the list of the Egyptian bloc in the North Cairo district and won a seat in Parliament and was part of the Housing Committee and announced the party’s withdrawal from the first founding committee of the constitution in objection to the opposition’s participation rates and minorities in the committee

Basem Kamel was chosen in February 2012 as a member of the National Council for Women, where he participated in many activities and seminars in Cairo and the governorates (northern / southern) to increase women's awareness, especially with regard to political participation, until 2015.

In the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections, he announced his bias and support for the presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, and participated with him and his campaign after the elections in the establishment of the Egyptian Popular Current and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the movement until 2015.

He was one of the coordinators of the Hanehmy Dostorna "We will protect our constitution" campaign to educate citizens about the disadvantages of Egypt's 2012 constitution and the reasons for the civil forces' rejection of some of its articles and the call to vote not to approve it, through human chains in Cairo and the governorates

One of the signatories to the statement establishing the Egyptian National Alliance 2012, which was the base for the founding of the Salvation Front later

Participated in the organization of some and participated in most political and revolutionary activities against the Constitution of Egypt 2012 and against the supplementary constitutional declaration (November 2012) and against the transgressions of the Egyptian interior and against the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood until its overthrow on June 30

He supported Hamdeen Sabahi once again in the 2014 Egyptian presidential elections in front of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. He was part of his electoral campaign for his belief in the civil state and the need to separate religion and the army from politics

He has participated and supported many initiatives and alliances calling for the unification of the civil forces and to provide a real civilian alternative that finds solutions to Egypt's economic, social and political problems

Positions

 * Currently the first vice president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party
 * Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dream Home Decor for Construction, Decoration and Real Estate Investment
 * Currently a member of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate
 * Former member of the Egyptian Parliament
 * Member of the former National Council for Women
 * One of the leaders of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition
 * Founding member of the Egyptian Popular Current and former member of the Board of Trustees