Mohamed Orabi

Mohamed Orabi

Foreign Minister of Egypt
In office 18 June 2011 – 18 July 2011
President	Hussein Tantawi (Acting)
Prime Minister	Essam Sharaf
Preceded by	Nabil el-Araby
Succeeded by	Mohamed Kamel Amr
Deputy Foreign Minister of Egypt
In office 6 March 2011 – 18 June 2011
President	Hussein Tantawi (Acting)
Prime Minister	Essam Sharaf
Preceded by	Faiza Abu El-Naga
Succeeded by	Nasser Hashemi
Personal details
Born	1951 Cairo, Egypt
Nationality	Egyptian

Mohamed Orabi (Arabic: محمد العرابي, born 1951)^[1] is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who was the Foreign Minister of Egypt in Essam Sharaf's cabinet from 18 June 2011 to 18 July 2011.^[2]

Career

Orabi worked in the Egyptian Army before he joined the foreign service in 1976.^[3] Then he became a career diplomat.^[4] He was deputy chief of the Egyptian mission in Israel from 1994 to 1998 and in the US.^[5] He also served in Kuwait and in the United Kingdom as Egyptian diplomat.^[6] He served as chief of the cabinet of the foreign minister in 2000 with Amr Moussa,^[4] He was Egyptian ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2008.^[3] Next he acted as assistant foreign minister for economic affairs.^[4]

He was appointed foreign minister in June 2011, replacing Nabil Al Arabi.^[3] However, he resigned from office in July 2011.^[7] Mohamed Kamel Amr replaced him as foreign minister.^[8]

References

↑ "Mohamed al-Orabi". Youm7. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
↑ Egypt's foreign minister resigns, Ahram Online, 17 July 2011
1 2 3 "Official: Egypt's foreign minister quits after less than month on job". CNN. Cairo. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
1 2 3 Ezzat, Dina (19 June 2011). "Meet Mohamed El-Orabi, Egypt's new foreign minister". Ahram Online. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
↑ Ezzat, Dina (21 October 2012). "Morsi could have appointed diplomat to Israel differently: Former FM Orabi". Ahram Online. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
↑ "Political tensions grow as former ambassador to U.S. is appointed foreign minister". Los Angeles Times. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
↑ Ibrahim Badawy; Samar Samir (19 July 2011). "Orabi re-appointed as Egypt's Foreign Minister". Youm7. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
↑ Li Laifang; Marwa Yehia (18 July 2011). "Egypt's new cabinet unveils". Xinhua. Cairo. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

Political offices
Preceded by Nabil el-Araby	Foreign Minister of Egypt 2011	Succeeded by Mohamed Kamel Amr

Cabinet of Essam Sharaf

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term

Vice Prime Ministers Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Ministry of Civil Aviation Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ministry of Culture Ministry of Education and Higher Education Ministry of Electricity and Energy Ministry of State for the Environment Affairs Ministry of Finance Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Health and Population Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Governor - Central Bank of Egypt Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority	Yehia El-Gamal (resigned); Ali El Selmi Hazem Al Beblawi Ayman Farid Abu-Hadid Zahi Hawass^† Ibrahim Manna Magued Osman Emad Badr El-Din Mahmoud Abu Ghazy Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa Hassan Younes Maged George^† Samir Radwan Mohamed Kamel Amr Ashraf Hatem Mohamed Fathy El-Baradei Farouk Abd El Baky El Okdah Ahmed Ali Fadel^†	2011 2011 2011-March 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2004 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 1996	Ministry of Interior Ministry of Justice Ministry of State for Local Development Ministry of Manpower and Migration Ministry of State for Military Production Ministry of Petroleum and Metallurgical Wealth Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Ministry of Scientific Research, Science and Technology Ministry of Social Solidarity and Justice Ministry of Tourism Ministry of Trade and Industry Ministry of Transportation Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Minister without portfolio; GID Chief Permanent Representative to the United Nations	Mansour el-Essawy Mohamed Abdel Aziz Ibrahim El-Gendy Mohsen El-Nomani Mohamed Hafez^† Ahmed Hassan El-Boraei Ahmed Al-Boraei^† Sayed Meshaal Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Abdel Menim Ghorab^† Faiza Abou el-Naga Abd Alla Al-Husseni Ahmed Helal Amr Ezzat Salama Gouda Abdel Khalek^† Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour Samir El-Sayiad Atef Abdel Hamid Moustafa Hussien Ehsan Al-Atfy Murad Muwafi Maged A. Abdelaziz	2011 2011 2006 2005 2011 1999 2011 2011 2011 2005 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011

^† Remained from previous administration. Below blank line: Granted Cabinet-level rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet.

Lists of Egyptian Ministers

Current Ministries	Prime Minister Agriculture and Land Reclamation Awqaf Civil Aviation Communications and Information Technology Culture Defence and Military Production Education Electricity and Energy Finance Foreign Affairs Health Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Interior Justice Manpower and Migration Petroleum and Metallurgical Wealth Planning and International Cooperation Scientific Research, Science and Technology Social Solidarity and Justice Tourism Trade and Industry Transportation Water Resources and Irrigation

Ministries of State	Environmental Affairs Local Development Military Production

Minister of State	Antiquities Affairs

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