{{Short description|Egyptian politician (born 1948)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | image_size = | office = Minister of Culture | prime_minister = {{ubl|Hazem Al Beblawi|Ibrahim Mahlab}} | predecessor = Alaa Abdel Fattah | term_start = July 2012 | term_end = July 2014 | successor = Gaber Asfour | prime_minister1 = {{ubl|Kamal Ganzouri|Hisham Qandil}} | predecessor1 = ''Himself'' | successor1 = | term_start1 = April 2012 | term_end1 = May 2012 | birth_name = Mohamed Saber Ibrahim Arab | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|12|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Desouk, Kingdom of Egypt | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = Independent | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = }} '''Mohamed Arab''', also known as Mohamed Saber Arab, (born 23 December 1948) is a veteran politician, who served as Egypt's Minister of Culture in different cabinets, including the Beblawi cabinet.
==Early life== Arab was born on 23 December 1948.<ref name=elmasry>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmasryfoundation.org/DetailsE.aspx?ID=1&PkMemberID=12|access-date=8 December 2012|title=About Us|publisher=El Masry Foundation}}</ref>
==Career== Arab worked as a professor of modern Arab history at Al Azhar University in Egypt from 1974 to 2011.<ref name=elmasry/> He was a visiting professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman from 1986 to 1991 and at Emirates University in 1994.<ref name=elmasry/> He also worked as a professor of modern history at the Arabian Researches and Studies Institute of the Arab League in Egypt 1994 to 2011.<ref name=elmasry/> In addition, he was the chairman of the Egyptian National Library and Archives (2005–2009) and of the Egypt's general authority for books and national documents (2009–2011).<ref>{{cite news|title=Meet Hisham Qandil's new Egypt cabinet|work=Ahram Online|date=2 August 2012 |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/49365.aspx|access-date=9 December 2012}}</ref><ref name=aref13>{{cite journal|author=Nevine El Aref |title=How he came back|journal=Al Ahram Weekly|date=1–7 August 2013|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/3580/17/How-he-came-back.aspx |issue=1159|access-date=6 August 2013}}</ref> In 2011, he retired from public post and became culture committee reporter at the National Council for Women.<ref name=aref13/>
Arab served as the minister of culture in the interim government headed by Kamal Ganzouri from April 2012.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=8 December 2012|title=Egypt's newly appointed cabinet|url=http://www.usegyptcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/AmCham-Egypt-Newly-Appointed-Cabinet-Ministers.pdf|publisher=American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt}}</ref><ref name=minocul/> He resigned from his post in May 2012 and was succeeded by Mohamed Ibrahim in the post.<ref name=ahramweekly>{{cite journal|author=Nevine El Aref|title=Honours upstaged|journal=Al Ahram Weekly|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1105/cu224.htm|access-date=8 December 2012|date=5–11 July 2012|issue=1105|archive-date=9 July 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709005900/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1105/cu224.htm}}</ref> Arab was renamed as the minister of culture in July 2012<ref name=minocul>{{cite web|title=Previous Ministers|url=http://www.moc.gov.eg/en/ministry/previous-ministers/ |publisher=Ministry of Culture|access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref> and continued to serve in the same post in the Qandil cabinet that became effective in August 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Egypt's New Cabinet Under Qandil|access-date=8 December 2012|url-status=dead |url=http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/03/egypts-new-cabinet-under-qandil|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228103339/http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/03/egypts-new-cabinet-under-qandil|archive-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> On 4 February 2013, he resigned again in protest of brutal violence against protesters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Culture minister resigns for third time|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/culture-minister-resigns-third-time|newspaper=Egypt Independent|date=4 February 2013|access-date=5 February 2013}}</ref> On 7 May 2013, Alaa Abdel-Aziz El-Sayed Abdel-Fattah was appointed culture minister in a cabinet reshuffle to succeed him in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nine new ministers announced in Egypt cabinet reshuffle|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/70853.aspx|access-date=16 June 2013|newspaper=Ahram Online|date=7 May 2013}}</ref>
Arab was reappointed culture minister to the interim government led by Hazem Al Beblawi on 16 July 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/76609/Egypt/Politics-/Whos-who-Egypts-full-interim-Cabinet.aspx|title=Who's who: Egypt's full interim Cabinet|work=Ahram Online|date=17 July 2013|access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Abigail Hauslohner|title=Interim Egyptian cabinet sworn in|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/deadly-clashes-erupt-in-cairo-after-us-diplomats-visit/2013/07/16/8fef7e1c-edff-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html|access-date=16 July 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=16 July 2013 |location=Cairo}}</ref> Arab's term ended in July 2014,<ref name=minocul/> and he was replaced by Gaber Asfour in the post.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecairopost.com/news/115224/news/breaking-new-government-swear-in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617182949/http://thecairopost.com/news/115224/news/breaking-new-government-swear-in|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2014|title=New government swears in|date=17 June 2014|access-date=27 June 2014|work=Cairo Post}}</ref>
===Awards=== Arab is the Egyptian State Award winner in social sciences of 2012 that was given in July 2012.<ref name=ahramweekly/>
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==External links== {{Navboxes |title = Mohamed Arab |titlestyle = style="background:#eee; |list = {{Cabinet Qandil}} {{Beblawi Cabinet}} {{Mahlab Cabinet}}}} {{Authority control}}
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