Ahmed Zaki Abdeen or Abdin is a retired Egyptian military officer and former minister of state for local development in the Qandil cabinet.

Career

Abdeen is a retired military general. He was appointed head of Dar El-Hayaa El-Handasia which is affiliated with the armed forces. He also worked as an engineer officer in Egypt's Armed Forces and a

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at the Egyptian Embassy in

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from 1993 to 1995. He then served as the head of the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, and of the CCAMLR construction cooperatives. He was appointed governor of

Beni Suef Beni Suef ( ar, بني سويف, Baniswēf the capital city of the Beni Suef Governorate in Egypt. Beni Suef is the location of Beni Suef University. An important agricultural trade centre on the west bank of the Nile River, the city is located 11 ...

in 2006. Then he was named as the governor of

Kafr El-Sheikh Kafr El Sheikh ( arz, كفر الشيخ ) is an Egyptian city and the capital of Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, about 134 km north of Cairo, in the Nile Delta of lower Egypt. As of November 2006, the town had a population of around 500,0 ...

in 2008. He retained his post in the August 2011 reshuffle of governors and it led to protests due Abdeen's alleged close link to National Democratic Party. He was appointed minister of state for local development on 2 August 2012, replacing Mohamed Attia. His major function in this post was to maintain a link between the central government and all the regional governors and assemblies. The other main function of him was to organize local council elections. When he was in office, his proposal to close down shops at 10 pm in Egypt led to controversy. This controversial proposal was not put into effect. Abdeen was replaced by Mohammed Ali Beshr as minister of state for local development in a cabinet reshuffle on 5 January 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdeen, Ahmed Living people Egyptian military officers Local Development ministers of Egypt Qandil Cabinet Year of birth missing (living people) Governors of Kafr El Sheikh Governors of Beni Suef