Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour ( ar, منير فخري عبد النور; cop, ⲙⲟⲩⲛⲓⲣ ⲫⲉϧⲣⲓ ⲁⲃⲇⲉⲗⲛⲟⲩⲣ; born 21 August 1945) is an Egyptian businessman and politician.

Early life and education

Abdel Nour was born into a Coptic Christian family on 21 August 1945. His father, Amin Fakhry Abdel Nour (1912 – 2012), was a Wafdist politician. He graduated from a French high school in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. He received a bachelor's degree from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

's Faculty of Economics and Political Science. He holds a master's degree from

the American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

(AUC) with a thesis entitled "private foreign investment as a source of economic development."

Career

Abdel Nour is a businessman. He began his career as representative in Egypt and the Middle East for the French bank "Banque de l'Union Européenne" then joined American Express International Banking Corporation as vice president in Egypt. He later founded Egyptian Finance Company. In 1983 he founded the Egyptian French Company for Agro-Industries (Vitrac Company )i He was board member of the Cairo and Alexandria stock exchange, the Federation of Egyptian Industries., the center for economic studies of developing countries at Cairo university. Abdel Nour then joined politics. He run for office in the 1995 elections, but lost. He won a seat in the 2000 general elections. and was elected Head of the opposition in Parliament. Later he was elected secretary-general of the

Wafd Party The Wafd Party (; ar, حزب الوفد, ''Ḥizb al-Wafd'') was a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt. It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period from the end of World War I through the 1930s ...

. After 25 January revolution he was appointed minister of tourism in the cabinet led by then prime minister

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in February 2011.Bassem Abo al-Abass and Michael Gunn
"Egyptian cabinet: The old, the new and the unknown"
''Ahram Online'', 24 February 2011. Abdel Nour succeeded Zoheir Garranah in the post. He remained in his post in the cabinets headed by Essam Sharaf followed by Kamal Ganzouri until 2 August 2012. He refused to participate in the government of the Moslem Brothers headed by Hisham Kandil and joined the opposition. He participated in the founding of the "National Salvation Front" on 23 November 2012 and was later chosen as its Secretary General. In this capacity he was among the organizers of the 30 June 2013 uprising that ended the rule of the Moslem Brothers. In February 2013 he joined the Cabinet headed by

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as Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment and will retain the portfolio of Trade and Industry until 18 September 2015. On 16 July 2013, he was appointed as the minister of Industry and Foreign Trade in the interim cabinet headed by prime minister

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."Egypt's interim president swears in first government"
''Ahram Online'', 16 July 2013.

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