Get to Know Yasser Ali; Egyptian President’s Spokesman
Dr. Yasser Ali Al-Sayed (born 1967) is the official spokesman for the Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi.
Education & Early Career:
Ali was graduated from the faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University. He has joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1987. In 2001, He started working in one of the hospitals in Saudi Arabia until the Egyptian revolution was sparked off in 2011. Ali is also a poet and writer. He used to be one of the revolutionary Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar’s students. Ali was not a well-known figure in the political or Islamist arena before revolution.
Political Career:
Ali started his political career after being named as the spokesman for the MB’s Justice and Freedom Party (FJP); the party has been established after January 25th revolution. When the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) nominated Khairat El-Shater to run for the presidency, Ali was chosen to be the spokesman for his presidential campaign and to talk about the MB’s platform “The Renaissance”. He remained in his position, when El-Shater was disqualified from the presidential election and Mohamed Morsi became MB’s new candidate. Ali has been also chosen to become the general coordinator for the MB platform Renaissance. Ali had written a number of articles to introduce the MB’s Renaissance platform.
Presidential Official Spokesman:
Yasser Ali can deal with the journalists and media. He interfered many times to solve the problems between the campaign and the press during the presidential elections period. He is distinguished with easiness in dealing with matters.
For this reason, Dr Mohamed Morsi has chosen Yasser Ali to be the presidential spokesperson. During the elections period, he was able to keep on with media, unlike other spokespersons.
Yasser Ali was monitoring what concerns President Mohamed Morsi in media, whether the crisis with Iranian agency, or the ongoing rumors about forming the new cabinet.
Sources:
http://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/23789
http://ikhwanonline.com/new/Article.aspx?ArtID=106803&SecID=472
