Ayman Al-Sayyad

Ayman Al-Sayyad
Al-Sayyad (June 2012)
BornMarch 17, 1956
Al-Santa, Al-Gharbiah, Egypt
Alma materCairo University
Occupation(s)Journalist, columnist
Notable credit(s)"Weghat Nazar" Editor in Chief, Senior Advisor to the 1st elected Egyptian President (2012)
Websitehttp://www.shorouknews.com/columns/ayman-al-sayyad

Ayman Al-Sayyad (Arabic: أيمن الصياد, born March 17, 1956) is an Egyptian journalist, writer, magazine editor and political commentator. He has been editor of Weghat Nazar Periodical since 2000, and has a weekly column in Al Shorouk Newspaper.[1] In addition to his journalistic career, on August 27, 2012, Al-Sayyad was chosen as a senior advisor to the first elected Egyptian president after the January 25 uprising, Mohammed Morsi.[2][3] He had earlier declined a ministerial post as Minister of Information, to keep his editorial independence.[4]

Al-Sayyad resigned from the Presidential Advisory Board in protest over the constitutional draft of November 2012,[5] which he considered a key failure of the Muslim Brotherhood to govern inclusively. He first announced his resignation through his Twitter account,[6] and later wrote an open letter to then-president Morsi, which has created wide controversy after it ran in Al-Shorouk newspaper.[7][8]

Following the 2011 uprisings in the Arab Middle East, Al-Sayyad devoted much of his writing and time to the issue of transitional justice[9][10][11][12] and has been since considered an expert on the topic. He has provided consultancy in the field of transitional justice to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and, in 2013, he was appointed by the Egyptian ministry of Justice as a member of the four-member-committee to work on transitional justice in Egypt.[13][14]

  1. ^ "Al Shorouk Columns". shorouknews.com. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Morsi spokesman reveals names of presidential assistants, advisers". english.ahram.org.eg. Ahram on line. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Meet Morsi's presidential team". egyptianchronicles. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  4. ^ "Morsi spokesman reveals names of presidential assistants, advisers". Ahramonline. Al Ahram. 27 Aug 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Presidential aides Abdel-Fattah, Sayyad resign to protest Brotherhood domination". Ahramonline. 5 Dec 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Presidential aides Abdel-Fattah, Sayyad resign to protest Brotherhood domination". Ahramonline. 5 Dec 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  7. ^ Al-Sayyad, Ayman (30 December 2012). "An Open Letter to Mr. President". Al Shorouk. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  8. ^ Al-Sayyad, Ayman. ""Open letter to the president", English Translation". passionateegyptian. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  9. ^ Ezzat, Dina (18 Apr 2014). "Real citizenship is the great challenge for Egypt's next president: Interview with Ayman Al-Sayyad". Al Ahram. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  10. ^ Al-Sayyad, Ayman (24 February 2013). "في لزوم ما كان يلزم" [What we really lost]. Al Shorouk. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  11. ^ Al-Sayyad, Ayman (3 March 2013). "عن الثورة المضادة". Al Shorouk. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  12. ^ Al-Sayyad, Ayman (8 December 2013). "لا انتقامية .. ولا انتقائية". Al Shorouk. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  13. ^ "أيمن الصياد: تم تشويه "العدالة الإنتقالية" فى مصر". Nisf-el-Dunia Magazine. 22 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  14. ^ "برغم وجود وزارة وخبراء وتجارب سابقة.. العدالة الانتقالية فى مصر "وفاة" قبل "الولادة"!". Al-Ahram Al-Arabi. 4 November 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.