Should he be the Secretary -General of the League of Arab States as an Egyptian?
Egyptian and Arab media reported that Cairo's intention was to pay a candidate for the position of Secretary -General of the League of Arab States, while the calls of some Gulf writers renewed to end Egypt's "monopoly" of this position.
Although there was no official statement in this regard, the Egyptian newspapers mentioned the nomination of the current Foreign Minister Badr Abdel -Ati and former Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
As for the most prominent Egyptian name, according to the media, it is the current Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, although it is not the most fortunate according to Hussein Abdel -Khaleq Hassouna, the former Egyptian ambassador and former representative of the League of Arab States at the United Nations.
Hassouna told the BBC that he is excluded that Madbouly will have the position, despite his competence, "due to his interest in internal problems in Egypt", not to mention the fact that this contradicts the custom that was the Secretary -General who assumed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, not the presidency of its ministers.
At the same time, some Saudi writers nominated Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al -Jubeir to be the new Secretary -General of the Arab League, but Dr. Muhammad Saleh Al -Harbi, the Saudi researcher in strategic studies and political science, says that there is no official or governmental statement in this regard.
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Some Emiratis also nominated the name of Dr. Anwar Gargash, who held the position of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Emirates, while some indicated that the choice of the Secretary -General requires the approval of two -thirds of the votes, which does not ensure that there is consensus on the name of a Gulf.
Al -Harbi added to the BBC that they are just ideas on cyberspace; "Everyone only made his replacement via social media and through private media articles," especially with the end of the mandate of Ahmed Aboul Gheit in June 2026.
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However, the Saudi political analyst stresses that "there is no constitutional or legal text within the university that the Secretary -General must be appointed of a certain nationality," but what is proposed during more than one summit is "the restructuring of the League of Arab States."
Al -Harbi pointed to "increasing calls for the reform of the League of Arab States, especially with regard to the mechanism of choosing the Secretary -General and the role of the organization in the regional and international scene," explaining that these calls were dated at the Jeddah 2023 summit, with the formation of an Arab committee headed by Saudi Arabia to discuss comprehensive reforms for the university.
He added, criticizing the role of the Arab bloc that the university does not have a mechanism or flexibility to keep pace with the variables, and that "it does not have creative projects that affect or reflect positively on the Arab peoples," noting that it is not possible to compare it to the European Union or the Gulf Cooperation Council in their movement as an economic, political, military and security bloc.
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Egyptian leadership
In 1943, the Egyptian government called for six Arab countries, namely Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and eastern Jordan (Jordan later) and Saudi Arabia to exchange opinions in Arab unity. This was a prelude to a "preparatory committee for an Egyptian invitation for a general Arab conference."
The committee's sessions resulted in the signing of the "Alexandria Protocol", which was a declaration of the general principles of the League of Arab States, to which Arab countries joined successively.
In 1945, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdel Rahman Azzam, was unanimously chosen to be the first Secretary -General of the League of Arab States. He was the only one in this position, which was the decision to appoint him in a special attachment to the university charter.
According to the annex, the appointment of the first Secretary was at first for two years, before the period currently extended to five years, renewable once.
Article 12 of the Charter of the League of Arab States states that the University Council appoints the Secretary -General with a majority of two -thirds of the university countries, and is at the degree of ambassador, while the tenth article states that Cairo will be the permanent headquarters of the League of Arab States, with the possibility that the University Council can meet anywhere else.
Although the Arab League Charter does not stipulate that it is headed by a specific state, the "custom" was made to choose the Secretary -General from Egypt, according to the former ambassador, Hussein Abdel -Khaleq Hassouna, the son of the second secretary of the League of Arab States.
Hassouna told BBC, "Egypt has played the primary role in demanding the establishment of the Arab League since the days of Mustafa Al -Nahhas, who brought together the Arabs," adding that the controversy over the Secretary -General is taking place with every renewal of the position.
It is worth noting that even with the Arab diplomatic estrangement of Egypt after the peace agreement with Israel, the Arab League chose a general secretary belonging to the temporary headquarters of the headquarters, Tunisia, before the water returns to its Arab streams and the trust returns to the permanent headquarters in Cairo.
"Competition is not in the interest of anyone"
Since the 1990s, talk about circulating the position of Secretary -General, with the return of the headquarters to Cairo after the suspension of its membership during the seventies.
In an interview with the BBC, the former delegate of Egypt at the Arab League, Dr. Mustafa Al -Fiqi, said that Algeria had offered the name of the Algerian diplomat, Akhdar Brahimi, before Egypt rushed to the proposal of Ahmed Esmat Abdel Majid, who is agreed upon by the members.
Algeria renewed its demand to internationalize the position with 2005 with the second term of the Secretary -General, Amr Moussa, during the Arab summit hosted by Algeria.
In 2011, a crisis occurred about the Secretary -General, when Egypt was forced to put the name of its foreign minister in the interim government after the January revolution, Dr. Nabil Al -Arabi, to occupy the position, after an objection to the nomination of Dr. Mustafa Al -Fiqi, a former parliamentarian and professor of political science.
This dispute prompted Qatar at the time to nominate Abdul Rahman Al -Attiyah, the fourth Secretary -General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, before withdrawing it after the consensus between the member states of the Arab.
Hassouna, the former Egyptian ambassador, stressed that the competition for the position of Secretary -General between the Arab countries "is not in the interest of anyone."
Hassouna added to the BBC that the Arab countries should take care of "cooperation and integration in roles" instead of competition, especially since the challenges facing the Arab region "are much greater than the dispute over the person of the Secretary -General."
Although he is excluded from the current custom, he believes that the transfer of the Arab League’s secretariat to another country, unlike Egypt, will give the impression that Egypt is "with an ancient history and the important role in the region has lost its leadership."
The former ambassador stressed the importance and leadership of the Egyptian role in the Arab world; Where it is currently playing the role of the mediator regarding the suspension of "genocide" in Gaza, and in the Sudanese and Libyan affairs, while the Gulf role revolves around the "economic financial role", according to it.
The former ambassador believes that the political role of the Gulf states does not affect significantly, citing this with the visit of US President Donald Trump, who has resulted in huge investments, without the Gulf states being able to persuade him to stop the war in Gaza.
History of the Arab League trustees
For eighty years, the age of the Arab League, and its Secretary -General was Egyptian, with the exception of Al -Shazly Al -Qalibi, who was Tunisian, during the period of the transfer of the university’s headquarters to Tunisia after the dispute with Egypt after signing the Camp David agreement in the late seventies.
Abdel -Rahman Azzam presided over the League of Arab States for a period of seven years, until he resigned in 1952, and was appointed by Mohamed Abdel -Khaleq Hassouna, the grandson of one of the elders of Al -Azhar, to succeed him for about 20 years until 1971, to be the longest period in the job of this position, in a move described by his son Ambassador Hussein as "the exceptional consensual".
As for the third secretary of the League of Arab States, he is Mahmoud Riad, the former director of Egyptian Military Intelligence in Gaza, and the brother of the late Egyptian Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Abdel Moneim Riad. Riad took office in June 1972 and remained for about eight years, during the reign of the late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat.
After five days of ratification of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1979, the University Council issued a decision to suspend Egypt's membership in the League of States and transfer the headquarters to Tunisia, to become Al -Shazly Al -Qulaibi, the Tunisian Minister of Culture, the first Egyptian Secretary -General.
The diplomatic boycott of Egypt ended at the Amman Summit in 1987 during the era of President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, so that Egypt would restore its membership at the university, while the General Secretariat continued in Tunisia until the resignation of Al -Qulaibi in 1990 in protest against the war in Iraq or what was known as the Sahara Shield operation.
Since then, the position of Secretary -General returned to Cairo, where Ahmed Esmat Abdel Majid, Egypt's permanent representative to the United Nations from 1991 to 2001, then occupied by Amr Moussa, for ten years from June 2001 to July 2011.
Dr. Nabil Al -Arabi was the shortest secretariat remaining in this position for five years until 2016, with his unwillingness to renew, to succeed him since then until now, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, whose term ends in June 2026.
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