Dawoud has been a journalist for
Al-Ahram Weekly since 1996. Dawoud was a founding member of the
Pioneer Party and planned to run in the
2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election. Dawoud was stabbed by Mohammed Morsi supporters on 4 October 2013. He was appointed the head of the
Constitution Party on 25 January 2017 On 14 April 2020, Dawoud was released from
jail. Dawoud ran against
Gameela Ismail for the leadership of the party in June 2022, which he lost. He resigned as the spokesperson of the
Civil Democratic Movement over the shifting of decision-making from a consensual model to a vote-based model, and later joined the
Egyptian Social Democratic Party. ==References==