Education
He studied law at Alexandria University and graduated in 1961.
politician Minister of Justice
He studied law at Alexandria University and graduated in 1961.
Mekki was one of the independent ministers in the cabinet. He is the brother of the former vice president Mahmoud Mekki, who resigned from office on 22 December 2012. Mekki was born in 1941.
Mekki is the former deputy head of the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest appeals court.
He was also the chairman of the fact-finding Committee in the Egyptian Judges Club. On 2 August 2012, he began to serve as minister of justice in the cabinet led by prime minister Hesham Qandil, replacing Adel Abdel Hamid.
Mekki resigned from office on 20 April 2013. His resignation was due to pressures of both the opposition and Brotherhood supporters.
In a reshuffle of May 2013, Ahmed Sulaiman was appointed minister of justice, succeeding Mekki in the post.
Mekki is a strong supporter of judicial independence. He was known as "a reformist judge", and "the revolution’s representative" in Qandil’s government. After his appointment, Mekki argued that Egypt is an Islamic state governed by Islamic traditions.
He was a member of the Qandil Cabinet. Although Mekki was an independent member of the cabinet, he is close to the Muslim Brotherhood.