Boutros Ghali

Boutros Ghali (Arabic: بطرس غالي‎) (1846Beni Suef, Egypt- February 20, 1910) was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was a Coptic Christian.

Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.[1]

His grandson Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was named after him, became the Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt and later the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

References

  1. ^ The Modern Middle East and North Africa by Aroian and Mitchell
Preceded by
Mustafa Fahmi Pasha
Prime Minister of Egypt
1908–1910
Succeeded by
Muhammad Said Pasha