Essam El-Haddad /'Isām al-Haddād/ (Arabic: عصام الحداد) Egyptian born in 1953 was a senior advisor for foreign relations for Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party, in August 2012 was appointed as one of four Egyptian Presidential assistants with responsibility for foreign relations and international cooperation until the overthrow of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in the third of July 2013. He is now in custody in a solitary confinement in Al-Aqrab prison in Cairo.