Mortada Mansour

Mansour studied law at Ain Shams University, and graduated in 1974.^[1] He later worked at Ismailia Procuracy, before he became a court president.^[2]

After two failed attempts in 1990 and 1995, he became a member of the Egyptian Parliament, from 2000 to 2005, then from 2015 to 2020,^[3] representing Dakahlia Governorate.^[4] He was appointed the head of the Human Rights Committee in January 2016.^[5]

Mansour announced his intention on 6 April 2014 to pursue the presidency in the 2014 Egyptian presidential election,^[6] though he withdrew on 19 April and announced his support for former defense minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for the presidency.^[7]

He announced in January 2018 that he would run in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election.^[8] He withdrew from the race several weeks later.^[9]

Mansour indicated in January 2018 that he would run for the presidency of the Lawyers Syndicate.^[10]

Mansour joined Zamalek in 1992, then he served as a board member from 1996 until 2001, when he became vice-president to Kamal Darwish, before winning the club's presidential election against the latter in April 2005.^[2] In December 2005, Egyptian Minister of Youth, Mamdouh El-Beltagy, declared the dissolution of Zamalek's board of directors, in which Morsi Atallah was appointed as president until the next elections; however, Mansour returned to his position in April 2006.^[2]

In August 2006, Minister of Sport, Hassan Sakr, announced the second dissolution of the board, as Mansour was sentenced on charges of insulting the head of a judicial body, El-Sayed Naofel, and trying to storm his office. Mansour was imprisoned in 2007 for three years,^[11] which was later reduced to one year. In 2009, he lost the elections against Mamdouh Abbas, before defeating Kamal Darwish in 2014.^[2] In November 2017, he won another election to remain as president for another three-year tenure.^[12]

On 4 October 2020, the board of directors of the Egyptian Olympic Committee decided to suspend Mortada Mansour from practicing any sporting activity in Egypt for four years, based on complaints submitted by the president of Al-Ahly, Mahmoud El Khatib, and many others.^[13] On 22 November 2021, Mansour and his board of directors officially returned back to Zamalek SC management, following the departure of the normalization committee until the club's next elections.^[14]

On 12 February 2022, he returned to his position at Zamalek for the third time, by defeating Major general Ahmad Suleiman in the elections held by the club through the general assembly.^[15][16]

On 25 February 2023, Mansour turned himself in to Egyptian authorities to serve a one-month prison sentence at Wadi el-Natrun, over a defamation case against Al-Ahly president Mahmoud El Khatib.^[17] On 30 March, he resumed his duties at Zamalek after serving his prison sentence.^[18] On 16 April, the Court of administrative justice ruled that Minister of Youth and Sports, Ashraf Sobhy, had to remove Mansour from his position as Zamalek president.^[19] On 3 August, he announced his departure from Zamalek four months after the court's decision, ahead of club's elections on 31 October.^[20]

Mansour is married to Najwa al-Deeb, with whom he has two sons and one daughter. He has 9 grandchildren.