Ahmed El-Zend () is a Judge at the
Egyptian Ministry of Justice and was appointed to be the Minister of Justice in Egypt on 20 May 2015. He was dismissed from the post on 13 March 2016.
El-Zend CJ was born in
Tanta
Tanta ( ' ) is a city in Egypt. Tanta had a population of 658,798 in 2018, making it the fifth most populous city in Egypt. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria. The capital of Gharbia Gove ...
in 1946 and became a public prosecutor after graduating obtaining a degree in Islamic law
from
Al-Azhar University
The Al-Azhar University ( ; , , ) is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Associated with Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university and is known as one of the most prestigious universities for Islamic ...
, Faculty of Sharia and Law in 1970. His Honor was elected to be the chief of the
Egyptian Judges' Club in 2009 and had occupied this position until he became the Egyptian Minister of Justice.
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Living people
20th-century Egyptian lawyers
Justice ministers of Egypt
1946 births
People from Tanta
Al-Azhar University alumni
21st-century Egyptian judges
21st-century Egyptian politicians