Mohammed El-Sawi is an Egyptian engineer, cultural entrepreneur and politician. He is the founder of the cultural centre

El Sawy Culturewheel El Sawy Culture Wheel ( ar, ساقية الصاوى) (transliterated: Sakkiat Al-Sawy) is a cultural center on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district on central Cairo, Egypt. Named after its founder and owner, Abdelmoniem El-Sawy, it is considered o ...

and the

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Life

Mohamed El-Sawy is the son of Abdel Moneim El-Sawy, a

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and former Minister of Culture as part of the Shafik Cabinet He founded the El Sawy Culturewheel as a cultural centre in 2003, naming it after his father. In February 2011, shortly after disavowing interest in the position, Mohamed El-Sawy was appointed minister of culture. Later in 2011 he founded the

(El-Hadara). He was returned to the

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as an MP for

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in the 2011-12 elections. In March 2012 he became one of the 50 parliamentarians elected to the

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, and kept his place in the Constituent Assembly when it was revamped in June 2012.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Egyptian engineers Culture ministers of Egypt Members of the House of Representatives (Egypt) Members of the Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012 {{Egypt-bio-stub