After Mubarak’s overthrow and his abandonment of power, Bassem Kamel went with a group of revolutionary youth and many prominent politicians to found the Egyptian Social Democratic Party in March 2011 headed by Dr. Muhammad Abu Al-Ghar. He was one of the founding members and a member of the party’s steering committee, then a member of its executive office in 2012, and then the party’s secretary of culture in 2015, until he was elected as the first vice president of the party, Farid Zahran, in April 2016.