Counselor Omar Marawan, Minister of Justice, is one of the judicial figures who played a pivotal political role before assuming the portfolio of the Ministry of Justice. He held the position of Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, and headed the Egyptian delegation that traveled to Geneva to review the human rights file of Egypt within the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council. United.

One of the most prominent humanitarian situations affecting the life of Chancellor Omar Marawan is the martyrdom of his brother, Judge Muhammad Marawan, in Arish, at the hands of black terrorism, while he was supervising the elections in North Sinai.

This situation was evident when Counselor Omar Marawan, Minister of Justice, stood in front of the picture of his martyr brother inside the Judges Club, remained silent in front of it for a minute, then asked the audience to recite Al-Fatihah to his brother.

Counselor Omar Marawan graduated from the Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University with a very good grade in 1979. He was appointed as an assistant to the Public Prosecution in 1989, and “Maraun” rose in judicial positions until the rank of attorney general in the technical office of the Attorney General, the judicial inspection of the Public Prosecution and a president in the Court of Appeal.

Counselor Omar Marawan was assigned to work as an assistant to the Minister of Justice for real estate affairs, and he was also assigned to work in the General Secretariat of the Supreme Elections Committee, where he was its official spokesperson and acting Secretary-General. From 2015-2016, he assumed the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the Supreme Elections Committee during the parliamentary elections and remained an official spokesperson. On behalf of the Supreme Elections Committee, until the by-elections that took place in a number of constituencies whose electoral seats were vacant, until he was delegated to work at the Cairo Court of Appeal as an assistant to the Minister of Justice for forensic and expert affairs.

In February 2017, the House of Representatives closed the curtain on the ministerial reshuffle prepared by Sherif Ismail, the Prime Minister. The amendment included the name of Counselor Omar Marawan as Minister of State for Legal and Constitutional Affairs and the House of Representatives, to begin his political life inside the House of Representatives after he became the link between the government and Parliament.