Office: | Minister of Justice |
President: | Hosni Mobarak |
Successor: | Mahmoud Abul Leil |
Term Start: | October 1987 |
Term End: | July 2004 |
Birth Date: | 14 December 1922 |
Nationality: | Egyptian |
Children: | 3 |
Farouk Seif Al Nasr (14 December 1922 – 31 December 2009) was an Egyptian politician who served as justice minister in different cabinets during Husni Mobarak's presidency.
Nasr was born on 14 December 1922.[1] He received a bachelor's degree in law.[1]
Nasr was an advisor to the Libyan government.[1] Then he worked as a technical advisor to the Egyptian justice ministry in 1972.[1] He was named as head of the supreme constitutional court in 1982.[1] He served as justice minister in Egypt, the post which he had been appointed in October 1987.[2] The cabinet was headed by Prime Minister Atef Sedki. Nasr was also appointed to the same post in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Atef Ebeid in October 1999.[2] As of 2003 Nasr was the president of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization.[3] Nasr was removed from office as justice minister, and Mahmoud Abul Leil replaced him in the post on 12 July 2004 when the cabinet of Ahmed Nazif was formed.[4] During his tenure as justice minister Nasr was a member of the Political Parties Committee which oversaw the legal procedures about the establishment of new political parties in the country.[5]
Nasr was married and had three children.[1] He died in December 2009 at the age of 87.[6]