Education
Cairo University; Columbia University. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cairo University; Columbia University. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Maghrabi holds a degree in Engineering from Cairo University and another in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina University as well as an Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. Maghrabi was Minister of Housing in Egypt from 2005 to 2010. Prior to that he was Tourism Minister.
In early February 2011 Maghrabi was accused of wasting public money and seizing state land following a cabinet purge by then President Hosni Mubarak.