Bahaa Eldin Abou Shoka
Mohamed Bahaa Eldin Abou Shoka is an Egyptian lawyer and politician. He is a professor of public law, and vice-chairman of the New Wafd Party.
He is the founder of Abou-Shoka Advocates, a Cairo law practice, and has been a member of the Shura Council.
In August 2010, he spoke out against boycotting the Egyptian parliamentary election, saying that it would be "like committing political suicide". In November 2010 he was announced as shadow minister of legal affairs in Al Wafd's shadow cabinet.
After Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power in February 2011, Mubarak hired Abu Shoka as one of his defence team.
In May 2012 Abu Shoka questioned the secretive judicial decision to lift a travel ban on foreign NGO workers accused of raising US funds without appropriate government authorization.
In mid-June 2012, he was named as a member of the revamped Constituent Assembly of Egypt, Around that time he criticised the constitutionality of the law passed which attempted to bar Ahmed Shafik from standing in the 2012 presidential election.
Sisi's re-election campaign submitted 173,000 citizen endorsements to Egypt elections authority
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Egypt wooing FDI back with new investment laws
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Egypt's missed investment opportunity
Dr Abou Shoka looks at Egypt's new investment laws that were passed in May 2017, and whether or not they have gone far enough to attract foreign investment back into Egypt.