Mohamed Orabi | |
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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 |
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]
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]