Talaat Afifi Explained

Office:Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf)
Primeminister:Hisham Qandil
Predecessor:Mohamed Abdel Fadil
Term Start:2 August 2012
Term End:16 July 2013
Birth Name:Talaat Mohamed Afifi Salem
Party:Independent
Nationality:Egyptian
Website:Official website

Talaat Afifi (Arabic: طلعت محمد عفيفي سالم) is an Egyptian professor at Al Azhar University. He served as Egypt's minister of religious endowments (Awqaf) from August 2012 to July 2013 and was part of the Qandil Cabinet.[1]

Career and views

Afifi was the dean of the faculty of preaching at Al Azhar University.[2] He also served the deputy head of the Islamic Legal Body for Rights and Reform, comprising more than a hundred of Egypt's leading Islamic scholars and activists.[3]

He was appointed minister of religious endowments (Awqaf) on 2 August 2012, replacing Mohamed Abdel Fadil.[4] He was one of the independent members in the cabinet.[5] However, Omar Ashour from the Brookings Institution states that Afifi was one of the Muslim Brotherhood's allies in the cabinet.[3] Afifi's term ended on 16 July 2013.[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: Echoes of past in new Egypt government. 9 December 2012. Reuters. 2 August 2012. Tom Perry. Tamim Elyan. Cairo.
  2. Mohamed El Sayed. Girl's death leads to ban. Al Ahram Weekly. 5–11 July 2007. 852. 9 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130325125526/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/852/eg13.htm. 25 March 2013. dmy-all.
  3. Web site: Omar Ashour. Egypt's New Old Government. Brooklyn. 9 December 2012. 7 August 2012.
  4. News: El Ganzouri's ministerial reshuffle fails to appease protesters' anger. 10 December 2012. Ahram Online. 3 December 2011.
  5. Web site: Egypt's New Cabinet Under Qandil. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 9 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131228103339/http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/03/egypts-new-cabinet-under-qandil. 28 December 2013. dmy-all.
  6. News: Abigail Hauslohner. Interim Egyptian cabinet sworn in. 16 July 2013. The Washington Post. 16 July 2013. Cairo.