Hesham Ali Ashmawy Mos'ad Ibrahim (Arabic: هشام علي عشماوي مسعد إبراهيم‎; born in 1978) is an Egyptian Islamist militant and former Egyptian Army officer who is suspected by the government of orchestrating and being involved in a number of terrorist attacks on security targets and state institutions, including the 2014 Farafra ambush and the 2015 assassination of Prosecutor general Hisham Barakat.