CAIRO – Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf appointed new governors on Thursday, responding to the calls from protesters to reshuffle the governors, as they are no longer suitable in the post-revolutionary era, the local media reported. The acting Prime Minister named Abdel-Qawi Khalifa for Cairo, Ali Abdel-Rahman for Giza, Essam Salem for Alexandria, Mohamed Abdel-Moneim for Suez, Ibrahim Hammed for Assiut, Emad Shehata for Qena, Mohamed Abdel-Qader for Sharqiya and Samir Salam for el-Minya. Sharaf also appointed Ashraf Helal for Menoufiya, Khaled Fouda for Luxor, Ali Mohamed for Damietta, Ahmed Hussein Moustafa for Ismailiya, Ahmed Abdullah for Port Said, Mohsen Hefzi for Daqahliya, Mohamed Hindi for Behaira and Taha Mohamed el-Sayyed for Mersa Matrouh. The Prime Minister has retained Moustafa el-Sayyed for Aswan, Mohamed Abdel-Fadil Shousha for South Sinai, el-Sayyed Abdel-Wahab for Noth Sinai, Gamal Imbabi for the New Valley, Magdi Qobaisi for the Red Sea, Waddah Mohamed for Sohag and Ahmed Zaki Abdeen for Kafr el-Sheikh. Sharaf has also renamed some of the governorates.