Anas el-Fiqqi

Anas Ahmed Nabih El- Fiqqi (Arabic أنس أحمد نبيه الفقي, DMG Anas Ahmad Nabih al - Fiqqī; born October 1, 1960 in Cairo, al - Gharbiyya ) is an Egyptian politician.

Life

Anas Ahmed Nabih El- Fiqqi studied until 1983 business administration at the University of Cairo, after which he devoted himself to the distribution of books, starting in 1987 and moved those mediated translation services. He is a close friend of Gamal Mubarak. In January 2004 he became head of the General Organization for Cultural Palaces, where he introduced modern technology then he broke Ali El Deen Hilal Dessouki from the Office of Youth and Sports Minister. In a reshuffle of the Cabinet Nazif on 15 February 2005 Anas Ahmed Nabih El- Fiqqi came to the chair of the Information Minister to sit. As head of the Ministry of Information, he announced to make this unnecessary and authority to transfer the most control functions of an authority which is modeled after the successful telecommunications regulatory authority. Furthermore, he proposed to privatize all Egyptian radio and television stations with the exception of Channel 1, Channel 2 and Nile TV.

As of 2009 buses of the Algerian national football team were pelted after leaving the premises of the airport of Cairo with stones in November and three Algerian national team were injured, said El- Fiqqi on Egyptian television, that it is barbaric people with Algerians who their values ​​by force demonstrate.

As part of the revolution in Egypt 2011 El- Fiqqi was filed on February 12, 2011 by the Supreme Council of the armed forces on suspicion of corruption under house arrest and resigned from his ministerial office. He was indicted by sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on 28 September 2011 on charges of corruption. Along with him, the court sentenced the former chairman of state television, Osama el- Sheikh to five years in prison.