Hisham Arafat (Arabic: هشام عرفات) is a former Transport Minister of Egypt in the cabinet headed by Sherif Ismail from 19 February 2017 to 27 February 2019 (in succession to Minister Galal Saeed) and resigned shortly after the Ramses Station rail disaster.[2][3][4][5][6]
Hisham Arafat | |
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هشام عرفات | |
Transport Minister of Egypt | |
In office 16 February 2017 – 27 February 2019 | |
President | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Prime Minister | Sherif Ismail |
Personal details | |
Born | 1964 - 1965[1] Egypt |
Alma mater | Ain Shams University |
Hisham holds the following degrees:[7][8][9][10]
Arafat is married to an engineer who works in the private sector. they have two sons who graduated from the German University - the first from the Department of Electrical and Communications, and the second is a mechanic.[11][12][13]