Khaled Azhari

Last updated

Khaled Azhari
Minister of Manpower and Immigration
In office
2 August 2012 –4 July 2013

Khaled Azhari (born 16 December 1966) is an Egyptian politician and the former minister of manpower and immigration. He was one of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) members serving in the Qandil cabinet. [1]

Contents

Early life and education

Azhari was born on 16 December 1966. [2] He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Chemical Technical Institute in 1987. [2] Then he obtained a LL.B. in law in 2002 and a master's degree in sharia and law from the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies in 2004. [2]

Career

Azhari worked as a director of quality control at the Amal Petroleum Company. [2] He is the vice president of the Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions, [3] and a member of the General Union of Egyptian Workers. [4] He was one of the victims of police brutality in 2010. [5]

Political career

Azhari was elected to the People's Assembly for the FJP in 2011. In January 2012, he was named deputy chairman of the parliamentary manpower committee. [2] [6] He was also among the Constituent Assembly's 85 members. [7] The Assembly was charged with the writing of Egypt's new constitution. [8]

He was appointed minister of manpower and immigration on 2 August 2012. [5] His appointment led to suspicions over the Brotherhood's potential to dominate labor affairs in Egypt. [9] He and other FJP members in the cabinet resigned from office on 4 July 2013 following the 2013 coup in Egypt. [10] His term officially ended on 16 July 2013 when the interim government led by Hazem Al Beblawi was formed. [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cabinet of Egypt</span> Chief executive body of the Arab Republic of Egypt

The Cabinet of Egypt is the chief executive body of the Arab Republic of Egypt. It consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers.

Saad El-Katatni is an Egyptian Islamist politician who has been the chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) since October 2012. From January 2012 until its dissolution in September he was the first Speaker of the People's Assembly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Prior to this, he served as the first secretary-general of the FJP and was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Salah Abdel Maqsoud was the minister of information of Egypt as part of the Qandil Cabinet.

Mostafa El Said Mussad is the former minister of higher education of Egypt. He was part of the Qandil Cabinet and is a member of the Freedom and Justice Party. He is described as Islamist engineering professor by Ashraf Khaled.

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.

Osama Yassin Abdel Wahab is the former minister of youth of Egypt. He was part of the Qandil Cabinet and one of the five Freedom and Justice (FJP) members in the first cabinet. He is also one of the leading members of the FJP.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Qandil Cabinet</span>

The cabinet of Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil was appointed by President Mohamed Morsi, following the resignation of military-named premier Kamal Ganzouri. The cabinet consists of 36 ministers. The composition of the government is mostly formed by technocrats, with five Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) members and one member each from the Al-Wasat and Renaissance parties.

Momtaz El-Saeed is an Egyptian civil servant who once served in the government of Egypt as minister of finance from 2011 to 2013.

The Egypt Party is a political party started by Muslim preacher Amr Khaled. He stepped down as party head in July 2013. The former interim Minister of State for Youth, Khaled Abdel-Aziz, is a member of the Egypt Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2012 Egyptian constitutional referendum</span>

A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt in two rounds on 15 and 22 December 2012. Egyptians living abroad were scheduled to vote between 8 and 11 December. Voting for expatriates had been delayed until 12 December 2012 and was extended until 17 December 2012. Voters were asked whether they approve of the draft constitution that was approved by the Constituent Assembly on 30 November 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2012–2013 Egyptian protests</span> Period of unrest around the 2012 presidential elections and 2013 coup

The 2012–2013 Egyptian protests were part of the crisis in Egypt including the June 2013 protests, the July 2013 coup d'état, and part of the post-coup unrest. They saw varying opposition against three contiguous heads of state; namely, SCAF, Muslim Brotherhood, and the de facto ruling Egyptian Armed Forces.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohamed Mahsoub</span> Egyptian politician

Mohamed Mahsoub Abdel Meguid is an Egyptian politician and former minister of state for parliamentary affairs, who served in the Qandil cabinet for a short time in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bassem Ouda</span> Egyptian politician

Bassem Kamel Mohamed Ouda is an Egyptian politician who is a member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the former Minister of Supply and Interior Trade. He is also allegedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mohammed Ali Beshr is an Egyptian politician who served as minister of state for local development from 5 January to 4 July 2013. He is one of the prominent figures of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Hatem Abdel Latif is an Egyptian politician who served as transport minister in the cabinet headed by Hisham Qandil from January to July 2013.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">June 2013 Egyptian protests</span> Demonstrations against President Mohamed Morsi

The 30 June protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's inauguration as president. The events ended with the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after mass protests across Egypt demanding the immediate resignation of the president. The rallies were partly a response to Tamarod, an ostensibly grassroots movement that launched a petition in April 2013, calling for Morsi and his government to step down. Tamarod claimed to have collected more than 22 million signatures for their petition by June 30, although this figure was not verified by independent sources. A counter-campaign in support of Morsi's presidency, named Tagarod, claimed to have collected 26 million signatures by the same date, but this figure was also unverified and not mentioned in media nearly as much as Tamarod's, with no reliable sources repeating it. The movements in opposition to Morsi culminated in the June 30 protests that occurred across the country. According to the Egyptian military, which calculated the number of protesters via helicopter scans of demonstration perimeters across the country, the June 30 protests had 32 million protesters, making them "the biggest protests in Egypt's history." However, independent observers raised concerns that the Egyptian government exaggerated the actual number of anti-Morsi protestors, with some research determining that only around one to two million people protested across the country against Morsi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)</span> Political party in Egypt

The Freedom and Justice Party is an Egyptian Islamist political party. The ex-president of the party, Mohamed Morsi, won the 2012 presidential election, and in the 2011 parliamentary election it won more seats than any other party. It is nominally independent, but has strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, the largest political group in Egypt. The party was banned and dissolved in 2014; however, it continues to function underground.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kamal Abu Eita</span>

Kamal Abu Eita is a long-time Egyptian trade unionist and former government minister. As a civil servant at the Real Estate Tax Authority, Abu Eita led a successful struggle for trade union autonomy against the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) during the Mubarak regime. A prominent figure during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution he helped found the country's first independent union confederation, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU). Elected to the People's Assembly following the democratic parliamentary election of 2011-12, Abu-Eita served as Minister of Manpower and Immigration between July 2013 and March 2014.

References

  1. ↑ "The Brothers of the Cabinet". Egypt Independent. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Eric Trager (September 2012). "Who's Who in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood". The Washington Institute. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Egypt's cabinet" (PDF). American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Khaled Azhari: Syndicate Freedoms Law a General Union of Workers Top Priority". Ikhwan Web. 22 February 2012. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  5. 1 2 Omar Ashour (7 August 2012). "Egypt's New Old Government". Brookings. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  6. ↑ El Sayed, Nadine (1 September 2012). "Muslim Brothers in the Cabinet: The Strategic Five". Egypt Today. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Official: The 100 members of Egypt's revamped Constituent Assembly". Ahram Online. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  8. ↑ Fady Salah (4 December 2012). "The 85 people deciding the fate of Egypt". Daily News. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  9. ↑ Dina Bishara (6 September 2012). "Who speaks for Egypt's workers?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  10. ↑ "Egypt Brotherhood ministers present official resignations". Ahram Online. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  11. ↑ Abigail Hauslohner (16 July 2013). "Interim Egyptian cabinet sworn in". The Washington Post. Cairo. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.