[1] Anas el-Fiqq served as minister of youth in Egypt as part of Ahmed Nazif's first cabinet in July 2004.
[1] Less than a year later he switched places with Mamdouh El-Beltagui to become Minister of Information in February 2005.
[3] On 30 January 2011, he was crediting for closing the TV channel offices of Al Jazeera in Cairo.
[4] A demand voiced by some of those involved in the 2011 Egyptian protests was that el-Fiqqi step down as Minister of Information.
On 12 February, the day after the president resigned against the background of Egyptian Revolution of 2011, he was reported to be under house arrest.