Who is Osama al-Azhari, Egypt’s new minister of endowments?

CAIRO – 2 July 2024: Official sources announced, Tuesday the most prominent names nominated for Egypt’s new Cabinet reshuffle with more than 13 new ministers included. The new Cabinet will take the oath on Wednesday and hold the weekly meeting.

Egypt’s new Cabinet formation lead by PM Mostafa Madbouly as announced by the sources include the following ministers:

Sherif Farouk minister of supply

Osama al-Azhari minister of endowments

Maya Morsy minister of social solidarity

Sherif El Sherbini minister of housing

Ahmed Kojok minister of finance

Badr Abdel Aty minister of foreign affairs and immigration

Hassan El Khatib minster of investment

Adnan El Fangary minister of justice

Sameh El Hefny minister of aviation

Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources

Rania Al-Mashat minister of Planning and International Cooperation

Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education

Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health

Mahmoud Tawfiq, Minister of Interior

Manal Awad Mikhail, Minister of Local Development

Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications

Ashraf Sobhy minister of Youth and Sports

Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electricity

Hani Sweilem, Minister of Irrigation

Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport

Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education

Mahmoud Fawzy minister of parliamentary affairs and political communication

Mohamed Gobran, Minister of Labor

Ahmed Hanno, Minister of Culture

Sherif Fathi, Minister of Tourism

Osama al-Azhari who is expected to be announced as minister of endowments is one of the new names that was announced within the new cabinet, here is the most important things you need to know about him:

- He grew up in Sohag, Upper Egypt.

- Obtained the International Certificate (PhD) from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion with first class honors, with recommendation for course and circulation, in 2011 AD.

- He obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Call at Al-Azhar University in 1999.

 -Obtained a specialization degree (Master’s) in the Hadith and its sciences from the College of Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Call in 2005 AD.

- He worked as a lecturer in the Department of Noble Hadith at the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Call in Assiut in 2000 AD, then an assistant lecturer in the same college in 2005 AD.

- He worked as an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion and Islamic Call in Zagazig

- He studied a number of Sharia and other sciences freely under a number of senior scholars specializing in the sciences of hadith, interpretation, principles of jurisprudence, logic, grammar, doctrine, and others.