Ibrahim al-Arjani


Ibrahim al-Arjani is an Egyptian businessman.
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Early life

Ibrahim al-Arjani was born in Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. He is a member of the Tarabin Bedouin tribe. His father is Gomaa Al-Arjani, a former head of the tribe and his mother is Sabeha Al Shaer, a Palestinian from Khan Yunis, Gaza.

Business career

In 2021, he founded Hala Consulting and Tourism, a company that handles the move of residents of Gaza Strip to Egypt and helps resettle them. Al-Arjani owns a number of tourism, vehicle and food companies. He is a member of the Sinai Development Foundation. Prior to the war in Gaza, he was appointed head of a neighborhood renewal project in the Gaza Strip that has since been put on hold.
Al-Arjani has been dubbed "King of the Crossing," reflecting his influential position at the crossing at Rafah.
Al-Arjani is head of the Arab Tribes Union, which represents Egyptian Bedouins living in Sinai. According to Al-Arjani, the Arab Tribes Union was "created out of a sense of national responsibility and reflects the growing role of Sinai’s Arab tribes in preserving the national security of Egypt’s borders."
Al-Arjani is the financier of a new city in northern Sinai which was supposed to be called Ajra. In a last-minute decision, the name was changed to al-Sisi City. The city was built to accommodate 900 families, including 3,500 disabled men, widows and orphans.
On January 19, 2023, Al Ahly SC announced the signing of a contract with Al-Arjani as their new sponsor, his company's logo was present on the club’s shirt during the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup.

War against terrorism

Al-Arjani came into prominence during the Sinai insurgency when he helped form a coalition of pro government tribal force to fight terrorist groups, 30 tribes banded together under his leadership to side with the Egyptian military against ISIS, his cousin Salim lafy was killed in an ISIS attack, he had a personal friendship with Ahmed Mansi a commander of Egypt's El-Sa'ka Forces "Thunderbolt Battalion" who was killed in 2017 Rafah terror attack

Controversies

During Gaza war reports accuse Al-Arjani and his associates of becoming akin to "gatekeepers," allowing or denying passage of refugees from Gaza Strip into Egypt through Rafah border crossing requesting a large sum of money for passage
On 14 May 2025, a gang of baltagiya wearing Bedouin clothes attacked multi-national activists in Ismailia who went there in support of the somoud convoy attempt to reach Rafah border crossing to break the Blockade of the Gaza Strip, some reports accused Al-Arjani of being behind this attack although no definite proof was presented