Ahmed Fathi Sorour
Ahmed Fathi Sorour ( Arabic أحمد فتحي سرور, DMG Aḥmad Fatḥī Surūr ; * July 9, 1932 ) was President of the People's Assembly from 1990 until the Egyptian Revolution on February 11, 2011 (مجلس الشعب Majlis asch-Schaʿb ), the lower house of the Egyptian parliament .
After studying law in Cairo , Egypt , and Michigan , USA doctorate he attended the University of Cairo to Dr. iur. , has worked there since 1959 as a professor in the law faculty and was dean from 1983–1985.
Sorour is married and has three children.
Political career
The member of the Politburo of the then ruling National Democratic Party of Egypt (NDP) was u. a. diplomatically active as cultural attaché at the Egyptian embassy in Switzerland (1964) and France (1965–1970) and permanent member of the Arab League at UNESCO (1972–1978).
During Sorour's parliamentary career, the focus of his activities has been on education and fundamental and human rights . He was a member of the Egyptian Constitutional Committee (1971), President of the International Conference on Human Rights in Islamic Law (1979), Education Minister of his country (1986–1990) and has been President of the Egyptian Society for Social and Cultural Development since 1991 .
In 1993 he was raised to the rank of Grand Officier des Ordre de la Pléiade of the International Assembly of French-speaking Parliamentarians . From 1994 to 1997 he was chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Union , in 2005 he became President of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly .
Web links
- Contemporary Africa Database ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (English)
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| SURNAME | Sorour, Ahmed Fathi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian legal scholar and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1932 |