Yousef Sabri Abu Taleb Gad Al-Haq (Arabic: يوسف صبري أبوطالب جادالحق) was an Egyptian Colonel General and The Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.

Early life

Yousef Abu Taleb was born on 24 May 1929. He graduated from the Military academy. He participated in five wars from the 1948 Palestine war until the gulf war

As a Governor

General Abu Taleb won popularity as Governor of Cairo because of improvements in the telephone system, efforts to ease congestion and moves to clean up the city.
He was also the Governor of North Sinai where he contributed to the rebuilding of the governorate after the war.

Military career

Gen. Abu Taleb also served in Egypt's wars with Israel, and commanded the Third Army's artillery at Suez in the 1973 war, when Israeli forces encircled the city. And, like his predecessor, he graduated from Cairo's military academy, then trained in the United States and the Soviet Union before President Sadat broke with Moscow in the early 1970s.

He served briefly as Assistant Defense Minister in 1979 and became Governor of Cairo in 1983.