Ali Abdel Aal

Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed (; born 29 November 1948) is an Egyptian law professor and politician. He served as the 11th speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt from 2016 to 2021. As law professor he worked at Ain Shams University and specialized in constitutional law.

Career Abdel Aal was born on 29 November 1948, in Nagaa El-Shaikh Ibrahim, Daraw, Aswan Governorate.

He studied law and obtained a degree from Ain Shams University in 1972. The next year he started working as a deputy to a prosecutor. In 1974 he became a university lecturer.

Abdel Aal was cultural attaché in the city of his alma mater from 1987 to 1991. The next year he served as constitutional advisor to the Parliament of Egypt. In 1993 he helped with the drafting of the Constitution of Ethiopia. As a constitutional advisor he was employed by the Royal Court of Kuwait between 1993 and 2011.

Abdel Aal was one of the constitutional experts who worked on the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. In 2015 he was the head of a committee which drafted three new electoral laws.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections Abdel Aal was elected on the For the Love of Egypt list for the Aswan Constituency.

After the 2020 Egyptian parliamentary election Abdel Aal obtained a seat in parliament, but did not run for re-election as Speaker and was succeeded by Hanafi Ali Gibali on 12 January 2021. In February 2021 several MP's called upon Abdel Aal to attend parliament or resign as MP.