# Amr Sobhy

> Researcher working at the intersection of media, politics and computation. Studies how news media construct political meaning — framing, ideology, editorial position — using computational methods. Founder of Le French News Lab, an independent research lab in Paris studying the French media ecosystem at scale. Previously thirteen years as a product leader and founder across AI, fintech and B2B SaaS.

## Site
- [Amr Sobhy — Media, Politics and Computation](https://amrsobhy.com/): single-page profile — research focus, background, selected papers, contact.

## Research
- [Le French News Lab](https://frenchnewslab.org/): independent research lab studying the French news media ecosystem — framing, ideology, and political communication, using computational methods.
- [Conflict or Strategy? Asymmetric Role Framing of La France insoumise and Rassemblement National in French News Headlines, 2022–2025](https://frenchnewslab.org/en/publications/conflict-or-strategy-lfi-rn-headline-framing): Le French News Lab, 2026.
- [FrenchNews-7: Benchmarking Cross-Publisher French News Editorial Desk Classification](https://frenchnewslab.org/en/publications/frenchnews-7-benchmarking-cross-publisher-french-news-topic-classification): Le French News Lab, 2026.

## Background
- Founder & Director, Le French News Lab (Paris).
- MSc Public Policy and Management, Birkbeck, University of London (Chevening Scholar); Executive MBA, Quantic.
- Product leader and founder across AI and fintech (Linkurious, Finary) and B2B SaaS (PushBots; IPtrace and currencystack, both acquired by apiLayer).
- Civic technology in Egypt: MorsiMeter, Mwazna, Zabatak.
- Formerly youth policy at the Arab League; technology and policy advisory for Internews Europe.
- Languages: Arabic, English, French.

## Elsewhere
- [ORCID 0009-0004-5107-7574](https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5107-7574): persistent researcher identifier — authoritative for author disambiguation.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrsobhy/)
- [Goodreads — poetry in classical Arabic](https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/2896537.Amr_Sobhy_)
- [US patent US10478273B2](https://patents.google.com/patent/US10478273B2)

## Machine-readable
- [llms-full.txt](https://amrsobhy.com/llms-full.txt): expanded plain-text version of everything on this site.
- [Profile JSON](https://amrsobhy.com/api/profile.json): role, research focus, affiliations, education, awards.
- [Publications JSON](https://amrsobhy.com/api/publications.json): selected papers with venue, year and canonical URL.
- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://amrsobhy.com/openapi.json): formal description of the two endpoints above.
- [A2A agent card](https://amrsobhy.com/.well-known/agent.json)

## Contact
- Email: amr@frenchnewslab.org