Mohamed Mahsoub

Mohamed Mahsoub Abdel Meguid  is an Egyptian politician and former minister of state for parliamentary affairs, who served in the Qandil cabinet for a short time.

Career
Mahsoub is one of the vice-presidents of the Al Wasat Party, a moderate Islamist party. The party consists mainly of former members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2000, Mahsoub was a candidate in the parliamentary elections, however he was not elected.

He was appointed minister of state for parliamentary affairs, being the only member of the party serving in the cabinet, on 2 August 2012. He was also head of the drafting committee and a member of the Constituent Assembly charged with drafting Egypt’s new constitution.

Mahsoub resigned from his post on 27 December 2012 in protest against the decision by president Mohamed Morsi to reshuffle the cabinet but keep prime minister Hesham Qandil. Omar Salem succeeded him as state minister for parliamentary affairs in a cabinet reshuffle on 5 January 2013.

Besides his political career, he is the dean of the Faculty of Law at Minoufiya University.

Controversy
In July 2013, during the 2013 Egyptian political crisis which ousted president Morsi, the Twitter account of Mahsoub, @drmahsoob, was hacked by unknown persons, and fake Tweets were posted in his name, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood is burning Egypt and intending to produce seas of blood, in order to blame it on the army. As of 8 July 2013, the account is still out of his control, and further fake Tweets have been posted.

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