1957
Bachelor of Law - Cairo University 1958 Attaché to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. 1958-1972 He worked in a number of Egyptian embassies, including the Egyptian Embassy in Switzerland and the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations. 1974-1977 Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs 1977 - 1981, 1986 - 1990 Director of the Department of International Organisations in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1981-1983 Alternate delegate to the United Nations in New York. 1983-1986 Ambassador of Egypt in India. 1990-1991 Head of the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations. 1991-2001 Minister of Foreign Affairs. 2001 Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. 2003 Member of the United Nations High-level Committee on Threats, Challenges and Changes in International Peace and Security. He received the Nile Sash from the Arab Republic of Egypt in May 2001 He obtained the Sash of the Nile from the Republic of Sudan in June 2001 He received a number of high-level honours from each of the following countries: Ecuador - Brazil - Argentina - Federal Germany He received his honorary doctorate in humanities from the Lebanese American University in Beirut, July 2010 Married with a boy and a girl | 