Phoebe Fawzy Girgis is a journalist, women's activist and politician who serves as Second Deputy Speaker of the Egyptian Senate. Winning office on the Republican People's Party ticket at the 2020 Egyptian Senate elections, she is the first Coptic woman to serve in the parliament.[1][2][3]
Phoebe Fawzy | |
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فيبي فوزي | |
| Second Deputy Speaker of the Senate (Egypt) | |
| Assumed office 18 October 2020 | |
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| Political party | Republican People's Party |
She is from the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.[1] Her father was a university professor. In 1983, she earned a degree in media and mass communications[1][2] from Cairo University.[2] She developed a career in media journalism, and became the youngest editor-in-chief on Egyptian TV at the time.[1] She is also an Arabic-English translator.[1] She became a news director at Canal TV.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Hosny, Rose (9 December 2020). "First Coptic female deputy to Egypt's Senate Speaker: Sailing uncharted waters". Watani. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d "The Coptic senator who became the Egyptian Senate's first female undersecretary". EgyptToday. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ Essam El-Din, Gamal (18 October 2020). "Former head of Constitutional Court elected as speaker of Egypt's Senate with 287 out of 300 votes - Politics - Egypt". Ahram Online. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
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