Hussein el-Shafei, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Egyptian revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Tanta, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt
About Hussein el-Shafei
- Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei, (Egyptian Arabic: ???? ????? ??? ????????), also known as Hussein el-Shafei (8 February 1918 – 18 November 2005), was a member of Egypt's 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as Vice-president under two Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.
- He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.
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