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Egyptian politician (born 1960)

Diaa Rashwan (Arabic: ضياء رشوان, born 1 January 1960) is an Egyptian journalist, politician and the current Chairman of the State Information Service.^[1] Rashwan graduated from Cairo University in 1981 with a Bachelor's degree in political science from Cairo University, he also received a Master's degree in the same field from the Paris based Sorbonne University in 1985.

Rashwan began his career in Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in the early 1980s as a researcher and has been an expert scholar over there since then and many years later in 2011 he became the Director of the Center.^[2]

Rashwan was a dissident during the Mubarak era, and a founding member of Kefaya movement which was the seed of the 2011 revolution.

Rashwan is also a member of the board of trustees of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights since the 1980s.^[3] In 2010 he nominated himself in the parliamentary el