| Intro | Egyptian politician |
| Is | Politician |
| From | Egypt |
| Type | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
Alexandria |
Abdel Moneim El Shahat (Arabic: عبد المنعم الشحات) (born 1970 in Alexandria) is the official spokesman of the Egyptian Salafist group al-Da’wa al-Salafiya (“The Salafist Call”), religious preacher and TV Host. He was graduated from the faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in 1992. He became a regular guest in talk shows after the 2011 Egyptian revolution as his opinions about tourism and Naguib Mahfouz’s novels were publicly debated.
A Salafist, El Shahat has called for Egyptians of the Bahai faith to be prosecuted for treason and for ancient Egyptian statues to be covered in wax. El Shahat and his group supported the 2013 Egyptian coup d’etat which ousted Egypt’s first elected president Mohamed Morsi.