Diaa Rashwan

Diaa Rashwan (Arabic: ضياء رشوان, born 1 January 1960) is an Egyptian journalist, politician and the current Minister of Information, Rashwan graduated from Cairo University in 1981 with a Bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, he also received a Master's degree in the same field from the Paris based Sorbonne University in 1985.

Rashwan began his career in Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in the early 1980s as a researcher and has been an expert scholar over there since then and many years later in 2011 he became the Director of the Center.^[1]

Rashwan was a dissident during the Mubarak era, and a founding member of Kefaya movement which was the seed of the 2011 revolution. Rashwan is also a member of the board of trustees of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights since the 1980s.^[2] In 2010 he nominated himself in the parliamentary elections against the candidate of the ruling National Democratic Party contesting the seat of Armant, however he lost to the NDP candidate due to widespread rigging of the elections by Mubarak's government.

In March 2013 Rashwan was elected president of the Egyptian Press Syndicate^[3] however he failed to secure a reelection for a second term. As chief of the Press Syndicate, Rashwan strongly opposed the Muslim Brotherhood-led government of president Mohamed Morsi, and was an ardent supporter of the June 2013 protests that led to Morsi's subsequent overthrow in July that year. Rashwan was chosen to be appointed to the 50-member constitution committee during the second transitional period to draft Egypt's current constitution.^[4] The constitution was later approved by popular referendum in January 2014. In June 2017 Rashwan was appointed by President el-Sisi as Chairman of the State Information Service^[5] and later that year he was appointed as a member of the Supreme Council for Combating Terrorism and Extremism. In March 2019 Rashwan once again became president of the press syndicate after being elected by a landslide while retaining his position as senior government official which drew the criticism of some observers.

En abril de 2022, el presidente egipcio declaró su intención de celebrar un diálogo nacional en Egipto bajo los auspicios de la Academia Nacional de Formación, que incluiría a todos los partidos políticos, incluyendo a la mayoría de las fuerzas de oposición laicas y a todos los sectores de la sociedad civil egipcia. En junio del mismo año, Diaa Rashwan fue elegido coordinador general del Diálogo Nacional en su calidad de presidente del SIS y presidente del Sindicato de Prensa.

Rashwan no pudo presentarse a las elecciones de la Asociación Egipcia de Periodistas de marzo de 2023 debido al límite de dos mandatos consecutivos estipulado por la ley. Khaled Al-Balshy , periodista disidente de izquierda, ganó las elecciones, derrotando al candidato progubernamental Khaeld Meery. ^{[ 6 ]}

El 10 de febrero de 2026, Diaa Rashwan fue nombrado Ministro de Estado de Información por el Presidente Sisi, en el marco de una reorganización del gabinete. Rashwan también conservó su cargo como Presidente del Servicio Estatal de Información.

Rashwan proviene de una familia con tradición política; su padre, Youssef Rashwan, fue miembro del parlamento egipcio en representación del distrito de Armant, en el Alto Egipto.