15 Facts About Alaa Thabet

Alaa Thabet is an Egyptian journalist and currently the editor-in-chief of the Al-Ahram Newspaper and a member of the board of directors of the Al-Ahram Foundation.

Alaa Thabet graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in 1992.

Alaa Thabet received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in the US in 2006 in journalism and editorial administration.

Alaa Thabet has participated in a number of important conferences around the world, including in Canada, Turkey, the US, Japan, the UAE, and other countries.

Alaa Thabet was a journalist for Al-Watan newspaper in Cairo in 1989 and a journalist for the Cairo bureau in 1990.

Alaa Thabet was a journalist and education correspondent for the Gulf newspaper of Kuwait and Al-Qabas in 1991.

Alaa Thabet was a journalist in 1991, and was a participant in the strategic report of Al-Ahram for many years, Al-Ahram strategic booklets, head of the education department and supervisor of readers' mail in Al-Ahram Evening newspaper in 1994, Al-Ahram Evening in 2004, and Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ahram Evening in 2007.

Alaa Thabet was the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Evening in the period from April 2011 to August 2012, and from 28 June 2014 until 31 May 2017.

Alaa Thabet served as Deputy Press Syndicate, Chairman of the Disciplinary Board and member of the Registration Committee.

Alaa Thabet presented a successful period in trade union work.

Alaa Thabet chaired several committees: Housing, Pensions, Culture and other activities.

Alaa Thabet was elected as a member of the National Press Agency, where Oath at the Parliament of Egypt 11 April 2017, and was the first statement that his choice of a new mandate from the state, and was signed by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi.

Alaa Thabet resigned from the National Press Commission on 31 May 2017 after being selected in the recent press changes of the boards of directors and editors of the national newspapers.

Alaa Thabet finished writing screenplay for the animated film "Prophet of Mercy" in 2015, which did not see the light for productive reasons.

Alaa Thabet published several publications, including the book "Higher Education in Egypt" in which he reviewed the policies of higher education in Egypt and put his experiences in the field of education has been honored in this regard from more than one, including the University of Ain Shams in 1997 for its activity in the cause of literacy.