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EG flag Egypt Executive order Enacted 2015-03-13

New Administrative Capital Establishment

إنشاء العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة

Summary

Presidential decree authorizing the construction of Egypt's New Administrative Capital — a $58B mega-project east of Cairo intended to house government, parliament, and the presidential palace.

Impact

The capital became one of the defining vanity-project legacies of the Sisi era; partial relocation began 2024-2025 amid severe economic strain.

Sources

How to cite

This is a citation for the legislation itself — credited to House of Representatives of Egypt and dated to its 2015 introduction. Tayyar is the retrieval surface, not the author. A separate "Retrieved via" line records that you accessed it through this dataset.

In-text: (House of Representatives of Egypt, 2015)

APA 7Institutional author
House of Representatives of Egypt. (2015). New Administrative Capital Establishment [Legislation]. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/eg-new-admin-capital-2015. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/eg-new-admin-capital-2015.
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
House of Representatives of Egypt. 2015. “New Administrative Capital Establishment.” Legislation. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/eg-new-admin-capital-2015. Accessed June 21, 2026.
BibTeXLaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-bill-eg-new-admin-capital-2015,
  title     = {{New Administrative Capital Establishment}},
  author    = {{House of Representatives of Egypt}},
  year      = {2015},
  date      = {2015-03-13},
  type      = {Legislation},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/eg-new-admin-capital-2015},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Retrieved via Tayyar on June 21, 2026}
}