Hussein Refki Pasha

Pasha

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 Ahmed Hafez Mohammed Hafez was an Egypt

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ian military general and political figure.

Career

Hussein Refki Pasha served as Egypt's Minister of War and Marine from December 1937 to April 1938, during the early reign of King Farouk I of Egypt. He served previously in the royal court

Royal court

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 as Chief Aide-de-Camp

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 to King Fuad I of Egypt, commanding the King's Maison Militaire (military household) and overseeing the royal guard

Royal Guard

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, palace infantry corps, palace cavalry corps, and other special military units. A street is named for Hussein Refki Pasha in the Sarayat El-Quba

El-Quba

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 neighborhood of Heliopolis

Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb)

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, Cairo.

Family

Hussein Refki Pasha is a member of the Hafez family: an aristocratic

Aristocracy (class)

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, ethnically Turkish

Turkey

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 clan with a tradition of serving in the Egyptian and Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 armies. Hussein Refki Pasha's father, Ahmed Hafez Pasha, was a senior officer in the Egyptian military. Hussein Refki Pasha is related to the Alawiyah Dynasty of Egypt

Muhammad Ali Dynasty

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 through his mother, who directly descends from Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt.

Hussein Refki Pasha's only child, Judge Hafez Refky, was a prominent Egyptian jurist

Jurist

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 and Vice-President of Egypt's High Court.

Awards and honors

• Grand Cordon Order of the Nile
  Order of the Nile
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• Knight Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Italy
  Order of the Crown of Italy
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• Knight Grand Cross Order of the Star of Honor of Ethiopia
• Honor Medal of Syrian Merit, First Class
• Honor Medal of Lebanese Merit, First Class
• Chief ADC to H.M. King Fuad I of Egypt