Ayman Al-Sayyad is an Egyptian journalist, writer, magazine editor, political commentator, ,photographer, and former senior advisor to the Egyptian President.

Al-Sayyad has been editor of Weghat Nazar Periodical since 2000, and has a weekly column in Al Shorouk Newspaper.

In addition to his journalistic career, on August 27, 2012, Al-Sayyad was chosen as a senior advisor to the first elected Egyptian president after the January 25 uprising, Mohammed Morsi.He had earlier declined a ministerial post as Minister of Information, to keep his editorial independence.

Al-Sayyad resigned from the Presidential Advisory Board in protest over the constitutional draft of November 2012,which he considered a key failure of the Muslim Brotherhood to govern inclusively. He first announced his resignation through his Twitter account, and later wrote an open letter to then-president Morsi, which has created wide controversy after it ran in Al-Shorouk newspaper.

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