Milad Hanna (14 June 1924 - 26 November 2012, Cairo) was a professor of civil engineering, parliamentarian, political activist and a prolific writer. In addition to teaching and practising as a civil engineer, Hanna was politically active for most of his life, joining a secret government youth organisation in the 1960s, detained for his activism in the 1970s, and becoming a member of parliament in the 1980s. Education and Academia Hanna received his bachelors in civil engineering from Cairo University in 1945, and his PhD from St. Andrews in Scotland in 1950.