Established in 1954, Egypt State Information Service is the nation's ‎main informational, awareness and public relations agency.

On 6/9/2012 a decree was issued to transfer the affiliation of (SIS) from the Ministry of Information to the Presidency of the Republic .

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