Hamed Abdel-Samad (Arabic: حامد عبد الصمد, Ḥāmid ʿAbd aṣ-Ṣamad, IPA: [ˈħæːmed ʕæbdesˈsˤɑmɑd]; born 1 February 1972) is a German-Egyptian author critical of Islam.

He taught and conducted research until the end of 2009 at the Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich; his dissertation topic was: Bild der Juden in ägyptischen Schulbüchern ("Image of the Jews in Egyptian textbooks”).

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood in his university days, a stay in a summer camp run by them triggered doubts, causing him to become skeptical, and finally become an atheist.

[3] On 24 November 2013, Egyptian news websites (citing his brother Mahmoud) reported that Hamed Abdel-Samad had been kidnapped.

[1] Following the book's publication in Egypt, a group issued a fatwa threatening Abdel-Samad and he was put under police protection.

[1] Abdel-Samad calls for an "Islam light" in Europe without shari'a, jihad, "gender apartheid", proselytism, and "entitlement mentality".

In autumn 2010, Abdel-Samad took the journalist Henryk M. Broder on a 30,000 km-long road trip through Germany for a five-part TV series.

"[13] On the same day, the Egyptian Sheikh Assem Abdel Maged declared a fatwa against the publicist, a call for all Muslims to kill the writer.

This was criticized as an attack on free speech by him and German-Israeli historian Michael Wolffsohn in the German newspaper Die Welt.

Following Israel-Hamas War in 2023, Abdel-Samad posted on Facebook to show his support to the Palestinian people and condemning "the killing of thousands of children in Gaza", he explained "I have always criticized Hamas and will continue to.

"[21] Following an intense debate with Brother Rachid, where Abdel-Samad defending the people of Gaza while condemning Hamas, and Rachid took the Israeli side, Abdel-Samad wrote "To the Muslims who are happy after my dialogue with Rashid, don't be too happy, I will not stop criticizing Islam or any ideology that is against human freedom.