Younes Makhioun

Zakaria Younis Abdel-Halim Makhioun (b. 25 December 1955) is an Egyptian politician for the conservative Salafist Al-Nour Party was elected in January 2013 as President of the party after the resignation of Emad Abdel-Ghaffour. He was elected to parliament representing the Al-Nour after the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012 and was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of Egypt which made the draft of the Egyptian constitution in place until it was suspended in July of 2013.

Early life and education
Makhioun graduated from Alexandria University’s School of Dentistry and Oral Medicine in 1980, and also received a Bachelors of Islamic Sharia from Al-Azhar University in 1999.

Political career
After the Egyptian revolution in January 2011 and the fall down of Mubarak's regime, a lot of Islamic groups and currents decide to establish political parties to join the political life in Egypt.

The Salafi Call (Al-Da‘wa Al-Salafiyya) formed its own party which is the Al-Nour Party and Makhioun was one of the founding members of the new party in May 2011.

He was elected to the People's Assembly of Egypt in the 2011-2012 election, representing Damanhour, Beheira. In February 2012 he proposed a blanket ban on internet pornography, holding it responsible for the increase in divorce and rape statistics.

In March 2012, he became one of the 50 parliamentarians elected to the Constituent Assembly of Egypt, and kept his place in the Constituent Assembly when it was revamped in June 2012. In August 2012 he objected to the Egyptian government accepting an IMF loan, on the grounds that "Borrowing from abroad is usury". He has also clashed with liberals over press freedoms, demanding severe sentencing for libel and slander: "it is essential that journalists accused of libel and slander crimes face jail sentences, while in other offences — such as the crime of disseminating lies — it is enough for journalists and newspapers to face tremendous fines.""

Makhioun, as chairman of al-Nour, was a visible representative of the party during the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi. Initially supportive of the army's removal of Morsi on 3 July, Makhyoun announced al-Nour's withdrawal from the anti-Morsi coalition after the "massacre" on 8 July, in which dozens of Morsi supporters were killed.

Personal life
Dr. Makhioun is married and he has 6 daughters and one son.