Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed ( ar, علي عبد العال; born 29 November 1948) is an Egyptian law professor and politician. He was Speaker of the

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between 10 January 2016 and 12 January 2021. As law professor he worked at Ain Shams University and specialized in constitutional law.

Career

Abdel Aal was born on 29 November 1948, in Nagaa El-Shaikh Ibrahim, Daraw,

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. He studied law and obtained a degree from Ain Shams University in 1972. The next year he started working as a deputy to a prosecutor. In 1974 he became a university lecturer. Ten years later he obtained his PhD in State at the

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. Abdel Aal was cultural attaché in the city of his alma mater from 1987 to 1991. The next year he served as constitutional advisor to the

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. In 1993 he helped with the drafting of the Constitution of Ethiopia. As a constitutional advisor he was employed by the Royal Court of Kuwait between 1993 and 2011. Abdel Aal worked as constitutional law professor at Ain Shams University. Abdel Aal was one of the constitutional experts who worked on the

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. In 2015 he was the head of a committee which drafted three new electoral laws. In the 2015 parliamentary elections Abdel Aal was elected on the

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list for the Aswan Constituency. He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on 10 January 2016. He obtained 401 of 585 votes. In 2019, Abdel Aal defended President Sisi in fall 2019, but via a favorable comparison to

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. “Hitler has his mistakes," he reportedly commented. "But what enabled him to expand east and west was the country's infrastructure he built. Even now that is the engine that drove Germany to become a top-tier country." He said "harsh measures" are required when "institutions are built and infrastructure is laid down". He later said his words had been taken "out of context"; pro-government sources reported his comments. After the

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Abdel Aal did not run for re-election as Speaker and was succeeded by Hanafi Ali Gibali on 12 January 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdel Aal, Ali 1948 births Living people People from Aswan Governorate Academic staff of Ain Shams University Members of the House of Representatives (Egypt) Scholars of constitutional law Speakers of the Parliament of Egypt Ain Shams University alumni University of Paris alumni Egyptian expatriates in France