Saba Habachy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sir Saba Habachy(1897 -1996),(Arabic:سابا حبشى) a former Egyptian official, oil industry consultant and international lawyer
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Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
About Saba Habachy
- Sir Saba Habachy(1897 -1996),(Arabic:???? ????) a former Egyptian official, oil industry consultant and international lawyer. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Dr.
- 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. During World War II, he was pro-Allies, provided supplies to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and was most likely on the German general Erwin Rommel's hit list.
- After the war, as a government minister, he wanted to bring in the West and help industrialize Egypt.
- When king Farouk was deposed after the Egyptian revolution of 1952, he was remembered by the new government as being pro-West. Dr.
- Habachy is 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.
- Sir Saba Habachy died 1996 in Evelyn Hospital in Cambridge, England.
- He was 98 and lived in Cairo and Manhattan.
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