Mohamed Orabi

Mohamed Orabi is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister of Egypt in Essam Sharaf's cabinet from 18 June 2011 to 18 July 2011.

Biography

Mohamed Orabi is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who was the Foreign Minister of Egypt in 2011. Orabi worked in the Egyptian Army before he joined the Foreign Service in 1976. He then became a career diplomat, serving as deputy chief of the Egyptian mission in Israel from 1994 to 1998, in the United States and in Kuwait as well as in the United Kingdom as Egyptian diplomat. He was Egyptian ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2008. He subsequently acted as assistant foreign minister for economic affairs.