Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League The Ministry of Information (Arabic: وزارة الإعلام) was the ministry in charge of state-owned media and press in Egypt, and for regulating the practices through affiliate agencies between 1971 until its latest dissolution in 2021.

During president Anwar Sadat's 11 year tenure, the ministry was renamed and restructured a number of times.

[3] In 1978 after signing a peace treaty with Israel, Sadat restructured the government and dissolved the ministry with his new prime minister Mostafa Khalil saying that "state supervision of the information media has come to an end.

[5] In 1986 Mubarak officially set out its mandate bringing the Egyptian Radio and Television Union and the State Information Service under its supervision.

The Ministry of Information was dissolved in February 2011[7][8] when the new cabinet was created under Prime Minister Essam Sharaf in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution and the purge of Hosni Mubarak's regime.