Mounir Sabet (more properly spelled Mounir Thabet) (Arabic: منير ثابت; 29 October 1936 – 3 March 2024) was an Egyptian general and sports official.
Biography
editBorn on 29 October 1936 in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena,[1] Mounir Sabet was the son of Saleh Sabet, an Egyptian pediatrician, and his Welsh wife Lily May Palmer.[2] Mounir Sabet's sister Suzanne was the wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, thus the former First Lady of Egypt.[3]
Mounir Sabet was a member of the 1965 Egyptian national shooting team.[4] He served as president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee from 1990 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2009.[5] He was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1998 to 2016 and became an Honorary Member in 2017.[1]
Sabet died on 3 March 2024, at the age of 87.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Olympic Movement. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Raafat, Samir (March 2005). "Egypt's First Ladies". Egy.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Hays, Kathleen; Morris, Valerie; Willis, Gerri (10 December 2003). "Deadly Checkmate" (Free with registration). Egypt Today. America's Intelligence Wire. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC), headed by Gen. Mounir Thabet, the brother of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak...
- ^ "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ "Egyptian Olympic Committee Presidents 1910 until now" (PDF, 2.86 MB) (in Arabic). Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "وفاة منير ثابت شقيق سوزان مبارك حرم الرئيس المصري الأسبق". Alarabiya. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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