Dr. Ihab Al-Kharrat
Consultant Psychiatrist
DR. Ihab Al-Kharrat
Consultant Psychiatrist
He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University in 1982. He received a master's degree in psychiatry from the same university. He received his doctorate in addiction treatment from the University of Kent in England. He is married to a doctor and has 3 children (lawyer and university students).
Contributions to the medical and scientific fields
- He taught at the London and Kent Universities and lectured in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon and all Arab countries, as well as the United States, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Kenya, South Africa and others.
- Leader of rehabilitation programs for addicts and prevention of abuse and addiction in Egypt.
- Senior UN program expert in leadership, addiction and risky behaviors.
- A leader in building the capacity of tens of thousands of young people and developing life skills and participation in society.
- He established a globally recognized training center and a model rehabilitation farm for addicts. He is currently the director of several social and psychological rehabilitation centers for addiction.
Contributions to the Charitable field
- He established 4 charitable centers in East Cairo and 3 in North Cairo, in addition to 8 other centers in different parts of the Republic.
Contributions to Political Activity
- Founder and President of the Justice and Freedom Organization since 2002, which works to train local leaders to recover the rights of the oppressed, and includes more than two thousand volunteers and 16 thousand trainees in 10 provinces.
- Founding member of the "Doctors for the Whole Nation" Syndicate since 1988.
- Member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights in 1990.
- Political activist in the student movement (1976-1982) at the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr al-Aini, and the Medical Syndicate from 1988 until now.
- The founder of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party from March 2011, and the deputy chairman of the party for political affairs, which was founded at the mercy of the revolution in Tahrir Square.