What is State Information Service?
The '''State Information Service''' is an [[Politics of Egypt|Egyptian government]] agency. It reports directly to the [[President of Egypt|Egyptian Presidency]]. It is the official media and public relations apparatus of the Egyptian state. It is responsible for regulating the affairs of foreign press and media correspondents in [[Egypt]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/?lang=en-us|title=Home-SIS|website=www.sis.gov.eg|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> The Service was founded in 1954 by the [[Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council|Revolutionary Command Council]]. It abolished the Monarchy. Revolutionary Command Council member [[Salah Salem]] was SIS's first Chairman. The current Chairman of SIS is [[Diaa Rashwan]]. He is a journalist and politician. He was appointed to the post by president [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] in June 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/6740/Sisi-appoints-new-chief-for-State-Information-Service|title=Sisi appoints new chief for State Information Service - Egypt Today|website=www.egypttoday.com|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> Among the previous Chairmen of SIS was [[Safwat El-Sherif]] one of the leading figures in president [[Hosni Mubarak|Hosni Mubarak's]] government. '''Chairmen of SIS''' - [[Salah Salem]] (1954 - 1955) - [[Amin Howeidi]] (1965 - 1966) - [[Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid]] (1967 - 1968) - [[Safwat El-Sherif]] (1979 - 1980) - [[Mamdouh El Beltagui]] (1983 - 1993) - [[Nabil Othman]] (1994 - 2003) - [[Taha Abdel Alim]] (2003 - 2004) - [[Nasser Kamel]] (2005 - 2006) - [[Diaa Rashwan]] (2017 - present) == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Organizations based in Egypt]]