Mohammad Rashad Al Matini is Egypt's former minister of transportation from 2 August 2012 until his resignation in the aftermath of the Manfalut railway accident on 17 November 2012.
[1] Al Matini worked as a professor of civil engineering at Cairo University.
[3] He was appointed minister of transportation in the Qandil cabinet on 2 August 2012,[4] replacing Galal Saeed.
[6] On 17 November 2012, a train crashed with a school bus, killing more than 40 school-age children and injuring others in Assiut governorate.
Upon this event, Al Matini submitted his resignation to President Mohammad Morsi.