Hilmi Murad

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Hilmi Murad
Minister of Education
In office
1968–1969
PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser
Personal details
Born7 July 1919
Cairo
Died1998 (aged 78–79)
Alma materCairo University
University of Paris

Hilmi Murad (1919–1998) was an Egyptian economist and politician who served as the general secretary and vice president of the Socialist Labour Party. In addition, he was one of the ministers of education of Egypt.

Early life and education[]

Hilmi Murad was born on 7 July 1919 in Cairo.[1] His sister, Amina Murad, was the wife of Kamal Al Din Salah who was assassinated on 16 April 1957 while serving as a consultant to the United Nations in Mogadishu, Somali.[2]

Hilmi Murad graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University in 1939 and received a postgraduate diploma in public law in 1940.[1] He received a PhD from the University of Paris in 1949.[1]

Career[]

Murad joined the Public Prosecution Office in 1942 and served there until 1946.[1] He worked as a professor of public finance.[3][4] He served as the vice president of Cairo University.[5] In the 1960s he worked in the UNESCO and then served as the minister of education in the period 1968–1969.[1][6] He was dismissed from the office by Gamal Abdel Nasser.[4]

Murad was a member of the socialist party which was established by Ahmad Hussein in the 1940s.[4] Later he became one of the leading figures of the Socialist Labour Party[7] and served as its vice president in the 1980s.[3][8] He was also one of the contributors of the newspaper Al Shaab.[7] He later joined New Wafd Party.[6] Murad was one of its three vice presidents and also, headed the parliament group of the party.[9] In addition, he was the spokesperson of the party.[10]

Death[]

Hilmi Murad died in 1998.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "حلمي مراد" (in Arabic). Dar Al Tanweer. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. ^ Helmi Sharawy. "from An Egyptian African Story". Asymptote Journal. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b Saad Eddin Ibrahim (2002). Egypt Islam And Democracy:Critical Essays. Cairo: American University in Cairo Prees. p. 164. ISBN 978-977-424-664-7.
  4. ^ a b c Galal A. Amin; John Wright (2013). Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 146, 149. ISBN 978-977-416-589-4.
  5. ^ Fauzi M. Najjar (January 1976). "State and University in Egypt during the Period of Socialist Transformation, 1961-1967". The Review of Politics. 38 (1): 69, 80. doi:10.1017/S0034670500015473.
  6. ^ a b John Waterbury (2014). The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy of Two Regimes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 261, 384. ISBN 978-1-4008-5735-7.
  7. ^ a b Robert Springborg (2019). Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of The Political Order. New York: Taylor & Francis. pp. 109, 172. ISBN 978-0-429-72211-0.
  8. ^ Noha El-Mikawy (1999). The Building of Consensus in Egypt's Transition Process. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 59, 149. ISBN 978-977-424-498-8.
  9. ^ Raymond A. Hinnebusch (March 1984). "The Reemergence of the Wafd Party: Glimpses of the Liberal Opposition in Egypt". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 16 (1): 114. doi:10.1017/S0020743800027628.
  10. ^ Donald M. Reid (1979). "The Return of the Egyptian Wafd, 1978". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 12 (3): 407. doi:10.2307/218411.
  11. ^ Mohammed Al Jawadi (24 June 2021). "د. محمد حلمي مراد آخر المعارضين النبلاء". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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