Essam al-Din Muhammad Hussein el-Erian (Arabic: عصام الدين محمد حسين العريان) (28 April 1954 – 13 August 2020)[1] was an Egyptian physician and politician.

[3] On 14 July 2013, Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.

During his time at university, el-Erian was the secretary of the cultural committee of the federation of students of medicine at the College of Medicine at Qasr Aini in 1972, and then became the president of the general union for students of Egyptian universities.

[6] el-Erian was also a founding member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.

[7] el-Erian was a prominent student leader in the 1970s and coordinated with other students, including Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and Ibrahim El Zafarany to facilitate the entry of many small Islamic organizations into the Muslim Brotherhood.