Gaber Asfour

Gaber Ahmed Asfour (جابر أحمد عصفور, (25 March 1944 – 31 December 2021) was an Egyptian academic and politician who was a professor at Cairo University from 1966. He was appointed the Minister of Culture on 1 February 2011.  He had published Countering Fanaticism, Times of the Novel and In Defense of the Enlightenment, among others.

During the 2011 Egyptian protests, he was appointed minister of culture, but he resigned after only one week in office, citing health problems as the reason for his resignation. Asfour died on 31 December 2021, at the age of 77.