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appointed as minister Within a month the Ministry of National Guidance was renamed as the Ministry of Information with the same minister. After a further few months, in May 1971, the Mohamed Abdelqader Hatem was named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information.
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saying that "state supervision of the information media has come to an end." This would not last long, and In 1979 it was again bundled as the Ministry of Culture and Information (during
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The ministry was dissolved for a third time in 2021 after the resignation of Osama Heikal, and was not reestablished in the following
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under its supervision. The ministry would remain intact with only two ministers taking the post during Mubarak's 30-year rule.
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However, it was reestablished a few months later in July 2011 and Osama Heikal was appointed as minister
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The Ministry of Information was dissolved in February 2011 when the new
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was split into one for culture, and another for national guidance with
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has taken up most of its duties overseeing state-owned media.
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Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities
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List of Egyptian Ministers of Information (incomplete)
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
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Minister of Information (Egypt)

Emblem of Egypt
Ministry of Culture and National Guidance
Government of Egypt
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Politics of Egypt

African Union
Member State of the African Union
Arab League
Member State of the Arab League
Constitution
history
President
list
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Prime Minister
list
Mostafa Madbouly
Cabinet
Mostafa Madbouly's ministry
Parliament
House of Representatives
Speaker
list
Hanafy El Gebaly
Senate
Judiciary
Supreme Constitutional Court

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