Tamim Khalllaf named Foreign Ministry spokesperson

The Foreign Ministry has a new spokesperson: Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has appointed Tamim Khallaf as the official spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, succeeding Ahmed Abu Zeid, who became Egypt’s ambassador to Brussels, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Khallaf last served as the deputy assistant secretary foreign minister for North American affairs and has previously worked as a political advisor at the Egyptian embassy in Washington.