Omar Suleiman

The famous Omar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر سليمان‎; was born on July 2, 1936. Omar Suleiman (Soliman) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on 29 January 2011. Suleiman became the director of military intelligence in 1991. In 1993, he became the chief of Egyptian Intelligence. Suleiman was born in Qena in Southern Egypt. He left Qena for Cairo in 1954, at the age of nineteen, to enroll in Egypt's prestigious Military Academy. Suleiman has acquired a more public profile while trying to broker a deal between the different armed Palestinian groups vying for power in Gaza as the top presidential envoy from President Hosni Mubarak as well as brokering deals or truces between the Palestinians and Israel. On January 29, 2011, Omar Suleiman was named vice-president during the civil unrest, ending a vacancy in the position that lasted almost 30 years.