[2] The title of his doctoral dissertation was “Problems and Prospects for Human Rights Education in the Arab-Islamic World - Egypt as a Case Study” and he obtained it in 2000.
[7] He was selected by Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom due to his speciality in education and its foundations.
[8][9] A fierce battle ensued involving politicians, clerics, and journalists over proposals to change the school curricula, when a new history book for the sixth grade was leaked.
[10] The crisis was exacerbated by the circulation of a video clip of the imam of the mosque, Muhammad Al-Amin Ismail, crying on the Friday's Khutbah, regretting what was stated in the new curricula, before attacking Al-Qarai fiercely.
[11][12] Omar Al-Qarai blamed the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Nasr al-Din Mufreh, for his silence even when some clerics called for his death.