Saba Habachy
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Born | Saba Habachy 2 February 1897 |
Died | 9 June 1996 | (aged 99)
Occupation | international lawyer, Minister of Commerce and Industry |
Known for | oil industry consultant |
Spouse(s) | Gamila Gindy Beatrice Gabrawy |
Children | Susan Nimet Nazeeh |
Dr. Saba Habachy (1897 -1996),(Arabic:سابا حبشى) a former Egyptian official, oil industry consultant and international lawyer.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Habachy received a doctorate at the University of Paris. He taught criminal law at the University of Cairo and served as a judge and as Egypt's Minister of Commerce and Industry. In 1952, he moved to New York City.[citation needed]
During World War II, he supported the Allied Forces, providing supplies to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. He may have been on German general Erwin Rommel's hit list.[citation needed] After the war, as a government minister to King Farouk, Habachy wanted to bring in the West and help industrialize Egypt. When the king was deposed in 1952, Habachy was remembered as being pro-West.[citation needed]
Habachy was survived by his wife, Beatrice Gabrawy; two daughters, Susan and Nimet, and a son, Nazeeh, all of Manhattan; two stepsons, Seti Boctor of Toronto and Saba Boctor of Los Angeles; a stepdaughter, Beatrice Antoun of Cambridge, and two granddaughters.
His first wife, Gamila Gindy, died in 1977. Habachy died 1996 in Evelyn Hospital in Cambridge, England, aged 99.[citation needed]
Books[]
Islamic Law in the Modern World
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- Egyptian Copts
- 1897 births
- 1996 deaths
- 19th-century Egyptian people
- Egyptian pashas
- World War II political leaders
- Egyptian jurists
- Egyptian lawyers
- Government ministers of Egypt
- Recipients of Honorary British Knighthoods
- 20th-century lawyers