| Office: | Minister of Culture |
| Predecessor: | Alaa Abdel Fattah |
| Term Start: | July 2012 |
| Term End: | July 2014 |
| Successor: | Gaber Asfour |
| Predecessor1: | Himself |
| Term Start1: | April 2012 |
| Term End1: | May 2012 |
| Birth Name: | Mohamed Saber Ibrahim Arab |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Desouk, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Party: | Independent |
Mohamed Arab, also known as Mohamed Saber Arab, (born 23 December 1948) is a veteran politician, who served as Egypt's minister of culture in different cabinets, including the Beblawi cabinet.
Arab was born on 23 December 1948.[1]
Arab worked as a professor of modern Arab history at Al Azhar University in Egypt from 1974 to 2011.[1] He was a visiting professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman from 1986 to 1991 and at Emirates University in 1994.[1] He also worked as a professor of modern history at the Arabian Researches and Studies Institute of the Arab League in Egypt 1994 to 2011.[1] In addition, he was the chairman of the National Library and Archives of Egypt (2005–2009) and of the Egypt's general authority for books and national documents (2009–2011).[2] [3] In 2011, he retired from public post and became culture committee reporter at the National Council of Women.[3]
Arab served as the minister of culture in the interim government headed by Kamal Ganzouri from April 2012.[4] He resigned from his post in May 2012 and was succeeded by Mohamed Ibrahim in the post.[5] Arab was renamed as the minister of culture in July 2012[6] and continued to serve in the same post in the Qandil cabinet that became effective in August 2012.[7] On 4 February 2013, he resigned again in protest of brutal violence against protesters.[8] On 7 May 2013, Alaa Abdel-Aziz El-Sayed Abdel-Fattah was appointed culture minister in a cabinet reshuffle to succeed him in the post.[9]
Arab was reappointed culture minister to the interim government led by Hazem Al Beblawi on 16 July 2013.[10] [11] Arab's term ended on July 2014,[6] and he was replaced by Gaber Asfour in the post.[12]
Arab is the Egyptian State Award winner in social sciences of 2012 that was given in July 2012.[5]