Abdel-Nour set to become Egypt investment minister

Ahram Online, Sunday 14 Jul 2013

A leading member of the liberal Wafd Party is set to become the country's new investment minister

Mounir Abdel Nour

Businessman and opposition leader Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour has accepted interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi's offer to become Egypt's investment minister, sources reported on Sunday.

Abdel-Nour served as tourism minister from February 2011 to August 2012.

He is currently secretary general of the National Salvation Front, Egypt's main coalition of liberal and leftist groups.

 

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