The Ministry of Culture of Egypt is a ministry

Cabinet of Egypt

The Cabinet of Egypt is the chief executive body of the Arabic Republic of Egypt. It consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers....

 responsible for maintaining and promoting the culture of Egypt

Culture of Egypt

The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations. For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself...

. The current Minister is Dr. Emad Badr El-Din Mahmoud Abu Ghazy.

Critics

In January 2001, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture was criticised for withdrawing three novels of homoerotic poetry by the well-known 8th Century Persian-Arab poet Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas

Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani Al-Hakami ,a known as Abū-Nuwās , was one of the greatest of classical Arabic poets, who also composed in Persian on occasion. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, of an Arab father and a Persian mother, he became a master of all the contemporary genres of Arabic poetry...

from circulation .

Divisions belonging to the ministry of culture

• Superior council of culture
• General organization of cultural palaces
• Dar El kotob