Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the ruling caretaker Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), issued a decision on Saturday (Jan. 21) appointing ten People's Assembly members, which is starting its maiden session on Monday (Jan. 23).

The list includes five Copts, including an expatriate Coptic figure, Tāriq Shākir, Chairman of the Egyptian-American Friendship Association, and 'Abd Allāh Jahāmah, a representative of the nomads of Sinai. [Dāliyyā 'Uthmān, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 22, p. 1]