Ibrahim Harrak


 * This article is about the Arabian federal government minister and marine biologist; for the Arab Air Force pilot, see Ibrahim Hiraq.

Dr. Abu Hamid Ibrahim bin Ibrahim Harrak (Arabic: الدكتور ابو حامد ابراهيم بن ابراهيم الحرّاق; b. 15 Aug 1960) is a Syrian marine biologist and politician who has served since November 2016 as Minister of Oceans and Fisheries in the Arab Union, the executive branch of the federal government of the Arab Union. He is an alumnus and tenured professor of marine biology at the University of Aleppo, and has also taught at Gamal Abdel Nasser University and the University of Damascus. He was born in Manbij to a Maronite Syrian father and a Sunni mother from Saudi Arabia (now the Arab Union's Peninsular Republic); according to Al-Jazeera, Dr. Harrak self-identifies as an agnostic and a humanist.

Harrak was married from 2000 to 2009, from which he has three teenaged sons; the younger two attend a boarding school in Vancouver, BC, while the eldest is a student at the University of British Columbia close to Vancouver. Harrak divides his time between his condo in Cairo while working, and his late parents' home in Port Said where his two elder sisters also reside.