CAIRO — On Feb. 14, the Cabinet of Sherif Ismail went through its second reshuffle since he took office Sept. 12, 2015, and it likely will not be the last one. Last month's long-awaited reshuffle, expected since August, was disappointing to many politicians and analysts.
The new ministers include Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Wadoud as minister of agriculture and land reclamation; Omar Arafa as minister of legal and parliamentary affairs; Ali Meselhy, the former minister of social solidarity in the era of Hosni Mubarak and head of the parliamentary Economic Committee, as minister of supply and internal trade; Mohamed Zein el-Abidin as minister of local development; Hala al-Saeed as minister of planning and administrative reform; Khaled Abdel Ghaffar as minister of higher education and scientific research; Tarek Jalal as minister of education; and Hesham Arafat as minister of transportation and communication. The ministries of investment and international cooperation were merged together and headed by Minister Sahar Nasr.
