Amira Mohamed Ali
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16 January 1980
Amira Mohamed Ali | |
|---|---|
 Mohamed Ali in 2024 | |
| Leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance | |
| Assumed office 8 January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Parliamentary Co-Chair of The Left in the Bundestag | |
| In office 12 November 2019 – 25 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Sahra Wagenknecht |
| Succeeded by | Dietmar Bartsch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amira Mohamed Ali 16 January 1980 |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Party | Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (since 2023) |
| Other political affiliations | The Left (until 2023) |
Amira Mohamed Ali (Arabic: أميرة محمد علي; born 16 January 1980) is a German politician who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2025 and has been one of the federal co-chairs of the BSW since 2024. From 12 November 2019 till October 2023, she was the parliamentary co-chairperson of The Left alongside Dietmar Bartsch.
In October 2023, she left The Left alongside others like Sahra Wagenknecht to found a new party. Mohamed Ali was the chairwoman of the board of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht-Association which was founded to prepare a new party in January 2024. She became chairwoman of the association and, upon the party’s founding on 8 January 2024, assumed the co-leadership of the newly established BSW alongside Sahra Wagenknecht. On 6 December 2025, Mohamed Ali was reaffirmed as co-chair of the BSW, this time alongside Fabio De Masi.
Amira Mohamed Ali was born in Hamburg and grew up in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. Her father is Egyptian and her mother is German.[1][2] After graduating from the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg-Winterhude in 1998, Mohamed Ali studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Hamburg, where she began and completed her studies.[3] She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg between 2005 and 2007.
She was admitted to the bar in 2008 and worked as an in-house lawyer and contract manager for an automotive supplier until 2017.[3] She is a member of IG Metall and the German Animal Welfare Association.
Mohamed Ali is married and has lived in Oldenburg since 2005.[1][4][5]
