Former Egyptian Foreign Minister to speak Oct. 10

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Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr is set to speak at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School Oct. 10.

Ambassador Amr was a witness to latest Egyptian uprising. He served as a diplomat under Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and resigned on the heels of protests of millions of Egyptians who called for the president’s resignation.

Ambassador Amr served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013. He resigned from office on July 2, 2013.

Ambassador Amr is a career diplomat who served in the Egyptian Embassies in London Beijing, and Canberra. He also served as counselor in the Egyptian mission to the United Nations in New York from 1982 to 1987, and as Minister Plenipotentiary in the Egyptian Embassy in Washington D.C. from 1989 to 1993.

He served as Ambassador of Egypt to Saudi Arabia and representative of Egypt to the Organization of Islamic Conference from 1995 to 1997.

Ambassador Amr was appointed alternate executive director, representing Egypt and 13 Arab countries on the executive board of directors of the World Bank in Washington DC from December 1997 to January 2009.

The public talk is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus.

More information is online at wws.princeton.edu.

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