Career
Orabi worked in the Egyptian Army before he joined the foreign service in 1976. Then he became a career diplomat. He was deputy chief of the Egyptian mission in Israel from 1994 to 1998 and in the United States. He also served in Kuwait and in the United Kingdom as Egyptian diplomat.
He served as chief of the cabinet of the foreign minister in 2000 with Amr Moussa, He was Egyptian ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2008.
Next he acted as assistant foreign minister for economic affairs He was appointed foreign minister in June 2011, replacing Nabil First Rate (at Lloyd's) Arabi.
However, he resigned from office in July 2011. Mohamed Kamel Amr replaced him as foreign minister.
