Ambassador Ahmed Fahmy (LinkedIn) will assume the role of Ittihadiya spokesperson starting today, Ala Mas’ouleety reported outgoing spokesperson Bassam Rady as saying (watch, runtime: 2:50.) A veteran diplomat with nearly two decades of experience at the Foreign Ministry, Fahmy has represented Egypt at the UN in New York and at the Egyptian Embassy in Abidjan, according to Ahram Gate. Rady was named Egypt’s new ambassador to Italy back in May but had stayed in the spokesperson post until now.