Established in 1954, Egypt State Information Service is the nation's ‎main informational, awareness and public relations agency. ‎Currently, SIS is an agency of the Ministry of Information. ‎Additionally, SIS acts as an institutional media advisor to the ‎Presidency of the Republic and Cabinet.‎

SIS serves the nation through its headquarters in Cairo and its ‎network of 64 domestic and 32 international media offices.‎

SIS operates in the following fields:‎

Domestic Informational Services: ‎ Including providing access to government information, awareness-‎raising in areas such as family planning, environmental protection, ‎literacy, political participation…etc. Additionally, SIS media offices ‎provide access, at symbolic rates, to computer and internet ‎facilities, as well as conference and screening rooms.‎

International Public Relations and Diplomacy: including staffing and ‎managing 32 press offices around the globe which monitor and ‎maintain a dialogue with the global press. SIS facilitates the work of ‎international journalists operating in Egypt through its Foreign Press ‎Center and its recently established Cairo Foreign Press Club.‎
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