Amr Khaled

Egyptian Islamic preacher

Amr Khaled is an Egyptian televangelist voted one of the world’s most influential people by Time Magazine in 2007. He was born in Alexandria in Egypt, and began preaching in mosques in the early 1990s, after graduating from the University of Cairo with a degree in accounting in the late ‘80s. In the late ‘90s he began working as a preacher for the satellite television station IQRA. He is currently studying for his PhD at the University of Wales.

Khaled was voted the sixth most influential intellectual in the world by Prospect, and was described by the New York Times magazine as 'the world's most famous and influential Muslim television preacher'. He is known as an Islamic moderate, encouraging positive, grassroots actions rather than extremism. The RightStart Foundation, of which he is Chairman, was established with the aim of 'building bridges between civilisations and nurturing constructive and positive co-existence between cultures, faiths, minority groups and host communities'.