[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.
[3] Arab served as the minister of culture in the interim government headed by Kamal Ganzouri from April 2012.
[6] Arab was renamed as the minister of culture in July 2012[5] and continued to serve in the same post in the Qandil cabinet that became effective in August 2012.
[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.