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Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Foreign Ministry spox, ambassador to Canada swap jobs + 4Sale gets chief product officer

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has appointed Ahmed Abu Zeid to return as spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry and director of the public diplomacy department, marking the second time he has held the position, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Abu Zeid is switching roles with Ahmed Hafez, who replaces Abu Zeid as ambassador to Canada after serving as spokesman for four years.

Classifieds platform 4Sale has appointed Nabil Mohamed (LinkedIn) as its chief product officer, according to a press release (pdf). Mohamed most recently served as vice president of product at Instabug, a global computer software company. Prior to that he was senior product manager in Amazon’s Prime video and recommerce divisions. Founded by local entrepreneur Tarek Sakr (LinkedIn), 4Sale’s online marketplace caters to the Kuwaiti market but operates out of Egypt.

Amr Ahmed Lotfy Shehata Morsi is the new head of Alexandria Mineral Oils Company (AMOC) while Sayed Al Rawi Mahmoud Abdullah will lead refiner Midor in a shuffle of leadership at a number of ministry-controlled stories.

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