Liberalism in Egypt or Egyptian liberalism is a political ideology that traces its beginnings to the 19th century.
Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is an Egyptian businessman and politician.
The vice-president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is a senior official within the Egyptian government.
The Free Egyptians Party is an Egyptian liberal party,founded after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It supports the principles of a liberal,democratic,and secular political order in Egypt. The Free Egyptians Party was the largest party in the House of Representatives. The party is a founding member of Al Hurriya Liberal Network.
The Egyptian Social Democratic Party is a social liberal and a social democratic party in Egypt. It was founded after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution by the merger of two minor liberal parties,the Liberal Egyptian Party,and the Egyptian Democratic Party on 29 March 2011.
The al‑Nour Party(Arabic:حزبالنور,romanized: Ḥizb an-Nūr),or "Party of The Light",is one of the political parties created in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. It has an ultra-conservative Islamist ideology,which believes in implementing strict Sharia law. It has been described as the political arm of the Salafi Call Society,and "by far the most prominent" of the several new Salafi parties in Egypt,which it has surpassed by virtue of its "long organizational and administrative experience" and "charismatic leaders". Its political aim is to establish a theocratic state on the lines of Wahhabism like in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was found to be the main financer of the party according to the public German television news service ARD (broadcaster).
The Egyptian Socialist Party is a political party in Egypt which was founded by some Egyptian socialists after the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Hesham Mohamed Qandil is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013. Qandil was appointed as Prime Minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012 and sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012.
Salah Abdel Maqsoud was the minister of information of Egypt as part of the Qandil Cabinet.
Ahmed Mekki was the Minister of Justice of Egypt from 2 August 2012 until he submitted his resignation to President Morsi on 20 April 2013. He was a member of the Qandil Cabinet. Mekki was one of the independent ministers in the cabinet. He is the brother of the former vice president Mahmoud Mekki,who resigned from office on 22 December 2012.
Tarek Wafik Mohamed is an Egyptian politician and the former minister of housing of Egypt. He was part of the Qandil Cabinet. He was the first housing minister of Egypt who is a specialist in urban development.
Hisham Zazou is an Egyptian businessman and politician who is the former Egyptian minister of tourism. He was one of the ministers who are not affiliated with an Islamist party in the Qandil cabinet. Zazou remained in his post in the interim government of Egypt,until he was replaced by Khaled Abbas Rami. He was reappointed on 19 September 2015.
Ahmed Gamal El Din is a retired police general and Egypt's former minister of interior. He served in the Qandil cabinet.
Ali El Selmi is an Egyptian liberal academic and politician who served as a deputy prime minister from July to December 2011 in the interim government in Egypt.
Hazem El Beblawi is an Egyptian economist and politician who was interim prime minister of Egypt from 2013 until 1 March 2014. Previously he served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in 2011. After the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi and his government in July 2013,Beblawi was named interim prime minister. On 24 February 2014,Beblawi announced his resignation.
Ahmed Amr Darrag is the founder and chairman of the Egyptian Institute for Studies (EIS). EIS is a think tank based in Istanbul,Turkey. He is an Egyptian engineer and politician,who briefly served as Egypt's minister of planning and international cooperation from 7 May to 4 July 2013 under the Freedom and Justice Party-led government.
Adly Mahmoud Mansour is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as the president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. He also served as interim president of Egypt from 4 July 2013 to 8 June 2014 following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état by the military which deposed President Mohamed Morsi. Several secular and religious figures,such as the Grand Imam of al-Azhar,the Coptic Pope,and Mohamed ElBaradei supported the coup against President Morsi and the military appointed Mansour interim-president until an election could take place. Morsi refused to acknowledge his removal as valid and continued to maintain that only he could be considered the legitimate President of Egypt. Mansour was sworn into office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on 4 July 2013.
Protests against the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état erupted in July 2013. Immediately following the removal of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Armed Forces on 3 July 2013 amid demonstrations against Morsi's rule,many protesters amassed near the Rabia Al-Adawiya Mosque to call for Morsi's return to power and condemn the military,while others demonstrated in support of the military and interim government. Deadly clashes such as Rabaa massacre continued for several days,with three particularly bloody incidents being described by officials as "massacres" perpetrated by security forces. During the month of Ramadan,prime minister Hazem al-Beblawy threatened to disperse the ongoing Pro-Morsi sit-ins in Rabaa al-Adaweya square and al-Nahda square. The government crackdown of these protests occurred in a violent dispersal on 14 August 2013. In mid-August,the violence directed by the army towards the protesters escalated,with hundreds killed,and the government declaring a month-long nighttime curfew.
The cabinet of Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi was sworn in on 16 July 2013. Al Beblawi was appointed on 9 July 2013 by interim president Adly Mansour. The cabinet is made up of 34 members - mostly liberal technocrats and no Islamists.
Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa,often referred to simply as Mohamed Ibrahim was the Minister of Interior of Egypt,from January 2013 until March 2015.
