By Ahmed Elumami
Tripoli, 15 July 2013:
The new Islamic Affairs and Awqaf Minister, Ali Mohamed Al-Bashir Hamouda spent eight years in Qaddafi’s jails and has been head of the Libyan Political Prisoners branch in his home town of Misrata.
The 51 year old Hamouda graduated in 1980 from Al-Quairi Institute for religious studies in Misrata. From 1984 until 2002 he was held as a political prisoner.
A year after his release, Hamouda began work at the Misrata Appeals Court. In 2007 he did a BA in religious studies at the University of Al-Asmariya in Zliten. In 2010 he went on to gain a postgraduate diploma in Nabawi Hadith sciences.
Between 2011 and 2012 Hamouda taught at the Fatima Al-Zahra Secondary School for Girls.
Last year he became the Director of the Misrata office of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf