Ahmed Shafik

Ahmed Shafik
أحمد شفيق
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
29 January 2011 – 3 March 2011
President
Preceded byAhmed Nazif
Succeeded byEssam Sharaf
Minister of Civil Aviation
In office
18 September 2002 – 28 January 2011
Prime Minister
Preceded byAhmed Abdel Rahman Nasser
Succeeded byIbrahim Manaa
Commander of the Air Force
In office
7 April 1996 – 1 March 2002
PresidentHosni Mubarak
Preceded byAhmed Abdel Rahman Nasser
Succeeded byMagdy Galal Sharawi
Personal details
Born
Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki

(1941-11-25) 25 November 1941 (age 82)
Cairo, Egypt
Political partyEgyptian National Movement[1] (December 2012 - Present)
SpouseAzza Tawfiq[2]
Children3[2]
AwardsMedal of Military Duty
Military service
AllegianceEgypt
Branch/service Egyptian Air Force
Years of service1961–2002
Rank Air Marshal[3]
Battles/wars

Air Marshal Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki[note 1] (Arabic: أحمد محمد شفيق زكى, IPA: [ˈæħmæd mæˈħæmmæd ʃæˈfiːʔ ˈzæki]; born 25 November 1941) is an Egyptian politician and former presidential candidate. He was a senior commander in the Egyptian Air Force and later served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 29 January 2011 to 3 March 2011 under Hosni Mubarak.

After a career as a fighter pilot, and squadron, wing and group commander, Shafik was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 1996 to 2002, reaching the rank of air marshal. Thereafter he served in the government as Minister of Civil Aviation from 2002 to 2011.

He was appointed as prime minister by President Hosni Mubarak on 29 January 2011 in response to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, making him the last prime minister to serve as part of Mubarak's administration.[4] He remained in office for only one month, resigning on 3 March 2011, one day after a contentious talk show confrontation in which Alaa Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, accused him of being a Mubarak regime holdover.[5]

He narrowly lost out in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections to Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party, gaining 48.27% of the vote, compared to Morsi's 51.73%.

  1. ^ "Shafiq to launch 'Egyptian Patriotic Movement' political party". Ahram Online. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Wife of presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq succumbs to illness". 30 April 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  3. ^ "A Tripartite Agreement to Implement IT Systems in the Ministry of Civil Aviation". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. 7 March 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Egypt protests". Al Jazeera. 29 December 2009. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  5. ^ Luhnow, David (5 March 2011). "Egypt PM Undone by TV Debate". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2012.


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