Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim (23 January 1947-) was Interior Minister of Egypt from 7 December 2011 to 1 August 2012, succeeding Mansour el-Essawy and preceding Ahmed Gamal El Din.
biography[]
Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim was born in Sohag, Egypt in 1947, and he served in the Egyptian Army during the Six-Day War before becoming a policeman in 1968. He served in the state security department and battled Islamic fundamentalists in Upper Egypt from 1989 to 1999, while also allegedly massacring Sudanese refugees in Cairo in December 2005. He served as Interior Minister of Egypt from 2011 to 2012 before being replaced by his aide Ahmed Gamal El Din.