Mourad Mouwafi or Muwafi (; born 2 February 1950) is an Egyptian
politician
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Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012Egyptian Military Academy, where he graduated in 1970 (class no.57).
* Joined Egyptian Special Forces (The Thunderbolt) and served for sixteen years.
* Earned a special certificate in special operations and climbing mountains from
France
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Positions
# Participated in the
War of Attrition
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Following the 1967 Six-Day War, no serious diplomatic efforts were made to resolve t ...
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# Participated in the October war 1973.
# Teacher in the Special Forces.
# Wing Commander in the School of Special Forces.
# Commander of an infantry battalion (1987–1989).
# Seconded to an Arab country for four years in the framework of the exchange of military expertise during the
Gulf War
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# Brigade Commander (1993–1995).
# Commander of the mechanic infantry division at the Second Army (1998–2000).
# Director of the Military Intelligence Service.
# Governor of Northern Sinai (January 2010–January 2011).
# Appointed as a Director of the Egyptian Intelligence by former President
Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 and the 41st Prime Minister of Egypt, prime minister from 1981 to ...
on 31 January 2011 after the previous Director Omar Suleiman was appointed as a
Vice President
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Awards
# The decoration of the Republic of Egypt of the second level
# Order of Military Duty of the second level
# Long Service and Good Example Medal
# Order of Duty of the first level
# Medal of Excellent Service
# Medal of Great Chevalier from the President of the Republic of France
Family life
Mourad Mouwafi married in 1978 and had three children.
Dismissal
In 2012, a deadly attack was carried out by suspected Islamists near the Gaza-Israel-Egypt border. Mouwafi revealed that Israel's General Intelligence has provided information to all relevant state authorities on the plot to assassinate 17 Egyptian recruits during the month of
Ramadan
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at mealtime in the Egyptian
Rafah
Rafah ( ) is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889. Due to the Gaza war, about 1.4 million people from Gaza C ...
. As a result, former President
Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012Intelligence
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on 8 August 2012.
Politics
Moufawi was involved with electoral alliance plans during the
2015 Egyptian parliamentary election
Egyptian parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives (Egypt), House of Representatives were held in two phases, from 17 October to 2 December 2015. The elected parliament will be entrusted with the task of reviewing the laws that were ...
. It was reported that he intended to establish his own political party that would support Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi should he win the election. Later, Mouwafi was floated as one of the names being supported by the United Arab Emirates to replace al-Sisi based on leaked strategy document.
Foreign Policy
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