Lieutenant General Omar Suleiman (Arabic: عمر سليمان‎) (born 1936) is the Minister without portfolio chief of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services (EGIS), the national intelligence agency of Egypt. He has been in office since 1993.

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. He received additional military training in the former Soviet Union at Moscow's Frunze Military Academy. Furthermore, he holds bachelors and master degrees in Political Science from Ain Shams and Cairo Universities in the mid-1980s. Having distinguished himself as a brilliant military man, Suleiman was transferred to military intelligence, where he began what was to be a long relationship between Egypt and the United States.

Establishing himself as a distinguished military man, he became the director of military intelligence in 1991.

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