During president
Anwar Sadat's 11 year tenure, the ministry was renamed and restructured a number of times. In the first cabinet in October 1970 the
Ministry of Culture and National Guidance was split into one for culture, and another for national guidance with
Mohamed Fayek appointed as minister Within a month the Ministry of National Guidance was renamed as the Ministry of Information with the same minister. After a further few months, in May 1971, the Mohamed Abdelqader Hatem was named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information. In 1978 after signing a
peace treaty with Israel, Sadat restructured the government and dissolved the ministry with his new prime minister
Mostafa Khalil saying that "state supervision of the information media has come to an end." This would not last long, and In 1979 it was again bundled as the Ministry of Culture and Information (during
Mansour Hassan's tenure). Under president
Hosni Mubarak, the Ministry of Information was reestablished in 1982 after being spun off from the
Ministry of Culture and Information. In 1986 Mubarak officially set out its mandate bringing the
Egyptian Radio and Television Union and the
State Information Service under its supervision. The ministry would remain intact with only two ministers taking the post during Mubarak's 30-year rule. The Ministry of Information was dissolved in February 2011 when the new
cabinet was created under
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf in the wake of the
Egyptian Revolution and the purge of
Hosni Mubarak's regime. However, it was reestablished a few months later in July 2011 and Osama Heikal was appointed as minister and was not reestablished in the following
cabinet reshuffle in 2022. During this period, the
National Media Authority took up most of its duties overseeing state-owned media. On 10 February 2026, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved a limited cabinet reshuffle which included the revival of the Ministry of Information.
Diaa Rashwan, who was serving as the head of the
State Information Service (SIS), was appointed to lead the ministry. ==List of Egyptian Ministers of Information (incomplete)==