By Coptic Solidarity –
A decree issued on September 17, 2026, promoted 233 members of Egypt’s diplomatic and consular corps. Only six are Copts—2.58 percent. Among 74 promotions to the two ambassadorial grades, just two are Copts; among 47 promotions to Minister Plenipotentiary, there are none.
These figures expose, once again, the entrenched religious discrimination within Egypt’s diplomatic establishment and the systematic exclusion of Copts from a ministry entrusted with representing all Egyptians abroad.
The September promotions are not an isolated occurrence. They follow the appointments examined in Coptic Solidarity’s August 13 report, “Egypt’s Self-Perpetuating Architecture of Exclusion.” which documented just one Copt among 37 ambassadorial assignments and reconfirmations, none among 24 senior headquarters appointments, and one among 52 newly appointed probationary diplomatic attachés.
The same exclusion is visible at every stage: recruitment of newly appointed attachés into the diplomatic service, advancement through its ranks, appointments to senior positions at headquarters, and representation abroad. The latest promotions add another set of official figures to a record documented repeatedly over the years.
This is not a question of occasional imbalance or a handful of unfortunate personnel decisions. It is the enduring outcome of a state policy that has maintained Egypt’s diplomatic corps as an overwhelmingly Muslim institution, while relegating Copts to a token presence.
Consolidated count
| New diplomatic rank | Total | Copts | |
| Ambassador, Distinct Grade | 24 | 1 | |
| Ambassador | 50 | 1 | |
| Minister Plenipotentiary | 47 | 0 | |
| Counsellor | 45 | 3 | |
| First Secretary | 28 | 0 | |
| Second Secretary | 2 | 0 | |
| Third Secretary | 37 | 1 | |
| Total | 233 | 6 |
Overall: 6 Copts among 233 promotions (2.58%).
The full list of promotions follows, with the Coptic diplomats identified.
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1. Promotion to Ambassador, Distinct Grade
1. Mohamed Karim Fayez Sherif
2. Rania Mahmoud Mohamed El-Sayed
3. Namira Nabil Mohamed El-Mahdi Negm
4. Mohamed Yehia Mohamed Negm
5. Ehab Mohamed Abdel-Sayed Hassan
6. Ahmed Sami Mohamed Mahmoud El-Ansari
7. Alaa El-Din Abdel-Moneim Mohamed Moussa
8. Walid Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Haggag
9. Seif Allah Yasser Abdel-Massih Shebl (Copt)
10. Khaled Mahmoud Abdel-Alim Ghonmi
11. Amr Kamal El-Din Barakat El-Sherbini
12. Mohamed Omar Hassan Mohamed
13. Hala Youssef Ahmed Ragab
14. Mahmoud Mostafa Mahmoud Ali
15. Zeinab Mohamed Essam El-Din El-Qennawi
16. Khaled Mohamed Sami El-Abyad
17. Tarek Mohamed Hussein Dahroug
18. Mai Taha Mohamed Khalil
19. Osama Mohamed El-Hadi Radwan
20. Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Orfi
21. El-Desouki Mahmoud Youssef Mahmoud
22. Mohamed Safwat Ramadan Atta
23. Haitham Mahmoud Galal Ahmed
24. Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel-Khaleq El-Shennawi
Total: 24 diplomats — 1 Copt
2. Promotion from Minister Plenipotentiary to Ambassador
1. Amr Ahmed Mohamed El-Rashidi
2. Tamim Hani Abdel-Moneim Khalaf
3. Mohamed Mohamed Fouad Abdallah Ahmed
4. Tamer Mohamed El-Hefni Mahmoud
5. Bassem Yehia Hassan Qassem
6. Nagi Nabil Beshara Ghaba
7. Amr Mohamed Youssef El-Sayed
8. Diaa El-Din Eissawi Abdel-Rahim Hammad
9. Walid Fahmy Ali El-Feki
10. Rasha Hamdi Ahmed Hussein
11. Sherif Mohamed Abdel-Latif El-Gammal
12. Nader Saad Abdel-Nabi Obeida
13. Ahmed Mohamed Abdel-Hamid Tayea
14. Walid Othman Karam El-Din Ali
15. Ahmed Mohamed Farid Ahmed Morsi
16. Mohamed Hassan Refaat Ali Hussein
17. Tarek Mohamed El-Saeed Youssef
18. Tamer Fathi Abdel-Salam Hammad
19. Reem Zeinhom Antar Zahran
20. Mohamed Mostafa Qotb El-Gammal
21. Mayada Essam Abdel-Rahman Mohamed
22. Haitham Mohamed Safi El-Din Mohamed
23. Abdel-Latif Abdel-Salam Abdo El-Layeh
24. Sati Seryana Habib Seryana
25. Mohamed Shehata Mohamed Hussein El-Halawani
26. Yomna Abdel-Fattah Mohamed Othman
27. Marwa Fouad Mohamed Mohamed Nader
28. Nabil Zaki Morcos (Copt)
29. Iman Sami Fathallah Yaqout
30. Kamel Mohamed Mahmoud El-Abasiri
31. Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Mahmoud
32. Mohamed Salah Hassan Qeshta
33. Dalia Mohamed Atef Ahmed El-Sayed
34. Ahmed Salama Mohamed El-Hamshari
35. Mohamed El-Sayed El-Sayed Arafa
36. Ahmed Youssef Abbas Bayoumi
37. Lamia Rashid Ali Mahmoud Hassan
38. Mourad Mohamed Yousri Abdel-Aziz Mourad
39. Bassem Saeed Abdo Abdel-Hadi
40. Sherif Abdel-Aziz Bedeir Hussein
41. Rasha Zoheir Thabet Shehab El-Din
42. Hanan Abdel-Aziz El-Saeed Shaheen
43. Hani Abdel-Rahman Khedr Mohamed
44. Mohamed Zakaria Hussein El-Ghazawi
45. Ahmed Salama El-Sayed Mohamed Soliman
46. Engy Sherif Abdel-Hamid El-Samanoudi
47. Abdel-Rahman Raafat Khattab Negm El-Din
48. Ahmed Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Moussa
49. Mona Mohamed Abdel-Wahab Arafa
50. Marwa Ibrahim Mohamed Youssef Hegazi
Total 50 diplomats — 1 Copt
3. Promotion from Counsellor to Minister Plenipotentiary
1. Amira Fathi Mohamed Eissa Shaheen
2. Taghareed Anwar El-Sayed El-Gowaily
3. Yosra Ebada Abu Shabana Ebada Sarhan
4. Mohamed Mamdouh Abdel-Hamid Ahmed
5. Osama Mohamed Ahmed El-Sayed
6. Marwa Abdel-Rahim Abdel-Khaleq Shawki
7. Ahmed Raafat El-Saeed
8. Shereen Mohamed Eissa Ahmed El-Saeed
9. Haitham Abdel-Hadi El-Sayed El-Shahat
10. Rami Ali Mahmoud El-Mobayed
11. Mohamed Ibrahim Metwally Mostafa Naim
12. Mohamed Abdallah Samir Borhan
13. Karim Mohamed Hegazi Mohamed
14. Mohamed Kamal Ali Ahmed El-Homsani
15. Ahmed Sobhi Ali El-Sayed Soliman
16. Mohamed Atef Farid El-Husseini
17. Hesham Mohamed El-Saeed Ahmed
18. Rania Ahmed Ibrahim Hemeid
19. Sherif Ali Shehata Ismail Eissa
20. Maha Abdel-Rahman Mohamed Abdel-Salam
21. Marwa Mohamed Gamal Abdel-Latif Shoeir
22. Mohamed Mostafa El-Hadi Abdel-Maguid Mosaad
23. Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Saleh Ali Sherif
24. Abubakr Mahmoud Sami Mohamed Abdel-Aziz El-Ashrafi
25. Shaim Hamed Abdel-Hamid El-Garf
26. Mariam Mohamed Fadel Yacoub
27. Marwa Abdel-Al Mahmoud Abdel-Al
28. Tamer Mohamed Tawfik Mohamed
29. Ibrahim Saeed Abdel-Rahim Ibrahim
30. Osama Mahmoud Shoukry Mahgoub
31. Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud El-Ashmawy
32. Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Ahmed Mohamed
33. Amgad Ahmed Rizk Mohamed
34. Nouran Helmy Ahmed Abu El-Wafa
35. Mounira Abbas Roshdy El-Ammari
36. Omar Ibrahim Aref Mohamed Aref
37. Hossam Abdallah Nour El-Din Ali Kamal El-Din
38. Sherif Raafat Roshdy Youssef (Potentially Coptic)
39. Tarek Ahmed Mahfouz Ahmed Mahfouz Mohamed
40. Nevine Mohamed Eissa Ahmed El-Saeed Eissa
41. Fatma El-Zahraa Hassan Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Qawi
42. Amr Mohamed Yousri Mohamed Morsi
43. Shaimaa Nabil Amin Darwish
44. Nora Abdel-Hadi Abdel-Moneim Mohamed
45. Yasmine Mohamed Mounir Omar El-Tounsi
46. Maha Rashid Ali Mahmoud Baraka
47. Mohamed Ramadan Mahmoud Ramadan
Total 47 diplomats — 1 potentially Copt
4. Promotion from First Secretary to Counsellor
1. Omar Hazem Ahdi Khairat
2. Nour Sayed Abdel-Maqsoud Mostafa
3. Amr Ezz El-Din Fahmy Mahmoud
4. Ehab Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed Erfan
5. Karim Essam Salah Awad
6. Karim Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Hamid El-Sayed
7. Khaled Morsi Ismail Attallah
8. Heidi Taha El-Arabi Abdel-Basset Hassouna
9. Mina Neshat Basily Abdel-Malek (Copt)
10. Mostafa Mahrous Mohamed Abdel-Maboud
11. Amin Shaaban Amin Abdel-Nabi
12. Ahmed Mohamed Farid Mounib
13. Amr Taha El-Shazly Ali
14. Iman Bellah Mohamed Nabil Ghouri
15. Hossam Mohamed Beshari Ali
16. Mohamed Mostafa Alawi Mohamed Seif
17. Moamen Mohamed Ragab Mohamed El-Shahawi
18. Ahmed Abu Zeid Mohamed Helal Shoeib
19. Sara Mahmoud Mohamed Attia
20. Omar Sayed Abu Zeid Omar
21. Omar Hamed Ahmed Shoukry
22. Amr Abdel-Wahab Mohi El-Din Abu Ahmed
23. Hani Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Razek El-Telbani
24. Heidi Beshir Fakhry Bedeir Farag
25. Yehia Mohamed Saeed Abdel-Hamid
26. Tamer Adel Rabie Ghaith
27. Shereen Galal Abdallah Moawad
28. Reem Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz El-Dahshan
29. Amira Mohamed Mahmoud Yousri El-Qormani
30. Amira El-Sayed Labib Khafaga
31. Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim Abd
32. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Kasseb
33. Mohanna Rizk Attia Rizk
34. Ziad Khaled Ashraf Moharram Bassim
35. Haitham Diab Bassiouni Ahmed
36. Nancy Adel Aziz Dos (Copt)
37. Karim Sami Ahmed El-Badawi
38. Mohamed Mostafa Ali Ali Sabah
39. Nesreen Mahmoud Youssef Ezz El-Din El-Shaqnaqeiri
40. Sherif Badrawi Mohamed Mohamed El-Badrawi
41. Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Roshdy Mahmoud
42. Mohamed Fawzi Mohamed Mohamed El-Erian
43. Mohamed Abdel-Moneim Mohamed
44. Magdy Aziz Tobia Aziz (Copt)
45. Mennatallah Mohamed Adel Mohamed Mahmoud Selima
Total 45 diplomats — 3 Copts
5. Promotion from Second Secretary to First Secretary
1. Mahetab Abdel-Hamid Nasser Mohamed Hamzawi
2. Ahmed Essam Sayed Mohamed Shedid
3. Noha Mohamed Saeed Abdel-Aziz Pasha
4. Khaled Essam Mohamed Mokhtar Zaher
5. Mohamed Salah El-Din Abdel-Fattah El-Alqami
6. Ahmed Sameh Gaber Khalil
7. Sara Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud
8. Mohamed Shehata Sayed Kamel
9. Mohamed Ahmed El-Soghayar Eida
10. Wael Abdel-Moneim Mohamed Mohamed
11. Ahmed Raafat Abdel-Rahim Ibrahim Hanafi
12. Ahmed Tawfik Mohamed El-Hadi Elayan
13. Hend Mahyar Mohamed Ahmed
14. Asmaa Samir Mohamed El-Sayed Ahmed
15. Karim Mohamed Adel Hassan El-Assal
16. Ahmed Nabil Mohamed Shash
17. Ibrahim Mamdouh El-Sayed El-Sayed Fouda
18. Ahmed Tarek Mostafa Ibrahim
19. Mostafa Mohamed Diaa El-Din El-Sayed Mohamed
20. Mohamed Othman Abdel-Halim Hassan Farag
21. Shehab Alaa El-Din Ali Ali Mekki
22. Reem Mohamed Naguib Zaki Shaalan
23. Enas Salah El-Din Soliman Hassan
24. Enas Taha Abbas Attia Dawoud
25. Mahmoud Mohamed Reda Abdel-Wahab El-Sayed
26. Ahmed Samir Mosaad El-Hammami
27. Ali Ahmed Ibrahim Ali
28. Sara Omar Mohamed Mokhtar El-Qadi
Total 28 diplomats — 0 Copts
6. Promotion from Third Secretary to Second Secretary
1. Abubakr Mahmoud Ahmed Abdel-Rahim
2. Mohamed Abdo Hassan Ahmed
Total 2 diplomats — 0 Copts
7. Promotion from Attaché to Third Secretary
1. Liana Ahmed Mohamed Abu El-Kheir
2. Ali Ibrahim Hassan Ali Ashmawy
3. Toqa Diaa Mahmoud Zaki
4. Islam Ibrahim Hussein Hassan Farousa
5. Basel Gamal Mohamed El-Louzi
6. Miran Mohamed Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim Taha
7. Youssef Mohab Nasr Mostafa Mahdi
8. Basant Mohamed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim
9. Ahmed Mahmoud Saber Abboud Mohamed
10. Rana Sayed Fouad Mohamed Ali El-Qannari
11. Dina Ehab Abdel-Basset Abdel-Rabbo Atta
12. Mariam Amr Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Rahman Saqr
13. Leila Amr Mohamed Galal Mohamed Gomaa
14. Bishoy Atef Abdel-Massih Sadek (Copt)
15. Karim Omar El-Farouk Hassan Mohamed Hassan
16. Yara Samer Ahmed Saeed
17. Mariam Ibrahim Ismail Mohamed
18. Shadia Hani Sadek Bayoumi
19. Rina Ashraf Mohamed Mostafa Badawi
20. Omar Hossam El-Din Omar Abubakr
21. Omar El-Sayed El-Sayed El-Zayyat
22. Aya Tarek Mohamed Saeed
23. Mohamed Mostafa Ahmed Hashem Abdel-Fattah
24. Ahmed Tarek Ahmed El-Malla
25. Marwan Saad Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
26. Nada Ayman Gharib Zaki
27. Youssef Salah El-Din Gharib Bayoumi
28. Mona Adham Mohamed
29. Yasmine El-Sayed Ali El-Morsi El-Banna
30. Mahmoud Khaled Tawfik Hashem
31. Aya Mohamed Reda Hassan Hosni Farid
32. Fatma El-Zahraa Ahmed Mohamed El-Nour
33. Mariam Abu El-Hana Ahmed Amin
34. Basant Hatem Omar Hussein Amin Abdallah
35. Mai Tarek Mohamed El-Yamani
36. Heidi Salah Salem El-Sayed Salem
37. Ahmed Hani Mohamed Zein Abdel-Razek
Total 37 diplomats — 1 Copt
Note: The English spellings above are transliterations of the Arabic names, not necessarily the spellings used in the diplomats’ passports or official English biographies.
