Rifaat Mahgoub

Rifaat El Mahgoub (, ; 23 April 1926 – 12 October 1990) was an Egyptian politician who served as the 8th speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt from 1984 until his assassination in 1990. He was a member of the then ruling National Democratic Party.

Early life and education Mahgoub was born in Damietta on 23 April 1926. He received a law degree from Cairo University in 1949. According to his interview in 1984 his disagreement with Nasser's administration was over the freedom of the university. He withdrew from political action in May 1967 and went to Beirut where he worked as a professor at the Arab University of Beirut from 1968 until 1970 in the School of Economics.

Purging the government, political and security establishments of the Nasserists, Anwar al-Sadat invited Mahgoub to take part in the Infitah policy phase and he took a series of teaching positions at Cairo University, eventually becoming dean of the faculty of Economics and Political Sciences in 1971.

On 2 October 1972, he was appointed by then President Anwar al-Sadat minister for presidential affairs.

Perpetrators Ahmad Isma'il 'Uthman Saleh, Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Naggar, Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya and Mohamed Hassan Tita were all renditioned from Albania to Egypt, with the cooperation of the United States, accused of participating in the assassination, as well as a later plot against the Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo. Their capture and torture were listed as the main reasons for the US embassies bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Works

1. "The Actual Demand" for which he received the Egyptian State Incentive Award in 1963.

2. "Public Finances"

3. "Economic Development in Egypt"

4. "Socialism"

5. "National Sensitivities"

6. "Interest Rate and Balance"