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| Formed | 1952; 74 years ago (1952) |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Egypt |
| Headquarters | Zamalek,Cairo 30°3′33″N31°13′1″E / 30.05917°N 31.21694°E /30.05917; 31.21694 |
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| Website | http://www.moc.gov.eg/ |
TheMinistry of Culture of Egypt is aministry responsible for maintaining and promoting theculture of Egypt.
After Egypt's independence from Britain during the July 1952 Revolution, the new regime established the Ministry of National Guidance in November of that year, giving it wide responsibilities over broadcasting, journalism, press attaches and film censoring, as well as managing tourism, museums, theatre productions, and popular culture.[1][2] It was considered based on the French model, but also shaped by the experiments of various Eastern Bloc countries with centralized production and dissemination of culture.[3] The ministry was renamed byPresidentGamal Abdel Nasser in 1958 as the Ministry of Culture and National Guidance.[4][2]
During presidentAnwar Sadat's regime, the ministry was renamed and restructured a number of times. In the first cabinet in October 1970 there was a Ministry of Culture, withTharwat Okasha, and a separate Ministry for National Guidance withMohamed Fayek.[5] Within a month the minister of culture was replaced withBadraldin Abughazi, and the Ministry of National Guidance renamed as the Ministry of Information with the same minister.[6] After a further few months in May 1971 Ismail Ghamem replaced Abughazi.[7] In 1979 it was the Ministry of Culture and Information (duringMansour Hassan's tenure).[8]
Under theMubarak regime it became the Ministry of State for Culture in 1982, with the information portfolio spun off into a separate ministry yet again.[9]
The Ministry often sends delegations to participate in events. In 2015, the Ministry participated in events inDoha, Qatar.[10] In November, 2018 the Ministry participated in the second annual Music Festival in Corsica.[11]
In January 2001, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture was criticized for withdrawing three novels ofhomoerotic poetry by the well-known 8th Century classical Arabic poetAbu Nuwas from circulation.[12][13]
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