Remembering AUC Trustee Nabil Elaraby
AUC mourns the loss of Advisory Trustee Nabil Elaraby, who passed away last week.
Elaraby served as a member of AUC’s Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2007, after which he became an advisory trustee. He played a significant role in the founding and continued success of AUC’s law department, where the Dr. Nabil Elaraby LLM Endowed Fellowship was established in 2010 to support Egyptian graduate students studying law.
"Dr. Nabil Elaraby was a very kind and super friendly man with no pretensions given his extraordinary career and positions with the United Nations and the Arab League. He always had a smile."
Elaraby served as secretary-general of the League of Arab States from 2011 to 2016 and Egypt’s foreign minister in 2011. His lifelong career spanned nearly four decades, where he held influential roles as a leading Egyptian diplomat, including Egypt’s negotiator during the Camp David peace accords, head of the Egyptian delegation to the Taba dispute, a judge at the International Court of Justice and Egypt’s ambassador to India. He worked extensively with the United Nations, where he served as Egypt’s permanent representative in Geneva and New York, vice-president of the General Assembly and a member of the International Law Commission. He was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and senior partner at Zaki Hashem law firm.
"Dr. El-Araby was a distinguished diplomat, foreign office minister, secretary-general of the Arab League, judge of the International Court of Justice and prominent jurist," said AUC Trustee Ziad Bahaa-Eldin '87. "Above all, he was a very decent man, humble, principled and a great patriot."
Born in 1935, Elaraby completed his law degree at Cairo University and earned his LLM and JSD from New York University. He was a proud parent of three AUC alumni: May ’87, Marwan '93 and Hisham '02.
"Dr. Nabil Elaraby was a very kind and super friendly man with no pretensions given his extraordinary career and positions with the United Nations and the Arab League," said AUC Trustee Bobbie Brown. "He always had a smile."
