[3] Beside his Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Ain Shams in Cairo, Zaazou earned a specialized Certificate in PPP.

[3] Then he helped to establish a tourist agency in the US focusing on the Egyptian market and began to work in the tourism field.

[7] After the Egyptian uprising, he served as senior assistant to former tourism minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.

[9] Following a fatal attack in the Sinai Peninsula in August 2012, in which 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed by armed men who subsequently infiltrated into Israel and were killed by the Israel Air Force, Zazou denied that there was a negative impact on tourism following the attack, and said that tourism agencies did not cancel reservations and that he was personally calling them to make sure.

Zazou's resignation placed him at the head of a mass protest from all quarters of the Egyptian tourism industry, a main source of foreign currency that is vital to the country's economy.