The Official Gazette published in its issue No. 44, released on Thursday, October 29, 2026, three Cabinet decisions, numbered 81, 82 and 83 of 2026, stripping three citizens of Egyptian nationality, on the proposal of the Minister of Interior, and based on the Constitution and Egyptian Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975.
The decisions stripped the nationality of Asmaa Gamal Mohamed Zaghloul, born in Menoufia, for acquiring a foreign nationality without prior permission; of Mohamed Wadie Abdel Hamid Asaad, born in Beni Suef in 2001, for joining military service in a foreign country without prior authorization; and of Bishoy Fayez Hanein Hanna, born in Assiut in 1997, for habitually residing abroad and joining a foreign body which the decisions said aims to undermine the social and economic order of the state by force.
The Cabinet stripped six other citizens of their nationality in decisions published in August and September, for joining military service in foreign countries without authorization.
On the same day, Al-Waqa’i Al-Misriya published in its issue No. 240 Interior Minister Major General Mahmoud Tawfik’s decision No. 1652 of 2026 restoring nationality to 21 people.
Photo: Zio27 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
