Name Hussein Pasha Nationality Egyptian | Monarch Fuad IFarouk Role Egyptian Political figure | |
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Spouse(s) Zeinab Khanum Said Agha Allegiance | ||
Prime Minister Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha Education Egyptian Military Academy | ||
Hussein Refki Pasha Ahmed Hafez Mohammed Hafez (Arabic: حسين رفقي باشا ; 1876–1950) was an Egyptian military general and politician who served as Egypt's 25th Minister of War and Marine.
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Career
Hussein Refki Pasha served as Egypt's Minister of War and Marine from December 1937 to April 1938, during the early reign of King Farouk of Egypt. Refki later became a senator in the Egyptian Senate (Arabic: مجلس الشيوخ; Majlis-al-Shuyukh), the upper-house of the Egyptian Parliament (dissolved in 1956). Prior to his political career, Refki served in the royal court as Chief Aide-de-Camp (Arabic: كبير الياوران; Kebeer-al-Yawaran) to kings Fuad I and Farouk. As Chief Aide-de-Camp, Refki commanded the King's Military Household (predecessor to the Republican Guard of Egypt), which included the royal guard and other elite military formations. A street is named for Refki in the Sarayat El-Quba neighbourhood of Heliopolis, Cairo.
Family
Hussein Refki Pasha is a member of the Hafez family of Egypt, an aristocratic Turco-Egyptian family with a prominent history, having produced many pashas and beys before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Refki's father, Ahmed Hafez Pasha, and his brothers Major-Generals Hassan Hafez Pasha and Mohammed Hafez Pasha, all held high commands in the Egyptian Army. The family has also produced several eminent Egyptian judges. Refki's only child, Chancellor Hafez Refky, was a member of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council (Arabic: مجلس القضاء الاعلى ; Majlis al-Qada' al-A'la), and Vice-President of Egypt's Court of Cassation (Arabic: محكمة النقض; Mahkamat-al-Naqd), Egypt's highest appellate court. Refki's nephew, Chancellor Fouad Hafez, was President of the Egyptian Court of Appeals in Cairo (Arabic: محكمة استئناف القاهرة ; Mahkamat Isti'naf al-Qahirah).
Hussein Refki Pasha is related to the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt through his mother, who is directly descended from the dynasty's founder, Muhammad Ali of Egypt. Since the 1930s Refki and his patrilineal descendants have used the surname "Refky" or "Refki."