Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi

Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi (Arabic: محمود سامي البارودي‎; June 11, 1839 – December 11, 1904) was a significant Egyptian political figure and a prominent poet. He served as 5th Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 February 1882 until 26 May 1882. He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم ("lord of sword and pen").[1] His father belonged to an Ottoman-Egyptian family while his mother was a Greek woman who converted to Islam upon marrying his father.[2][3]

Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi
محمود سامي البارودي
5th Prime Minister of Egypt
In office 4 February 1882 – 26 May 1882
Monarch	Tewfik Pasha
Preceded by	Mohamed Sherif Pasha
Succeeded by	Raghib Pasha
Personal details
Born	11 June 1839 Cairo, Egypt
Died	11 December 1904 (aged 65) Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt

References

1. Cavalry poetics Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine Al Ahram Weekly (722), 23–29 December 2004
2. Hichens, Robert Smythe (1909). Bella Donna: A Novel, Volumes 1-2. A. L. Burt Company. pp. 111, 209. OCLC 1971323. Although he was dressed like an Englishman, and on deck wore a straw hat with the word “Scott inside it, he soon let them know that his name was Mahmoud Baroudi, that his native place was Alexandria, that he was of mixed Greek and Egyptian blood, and that he was a man of great energy and will, interested in many schemes, pulling the strings of many enterprises. … Baroudi 's father was a rich Turco-Egyptian. His mother had been a beautiful Greek girl, who had embraced Islam when his father fell in love with her and proposed to marry her.
3. Rose, Andrew (2013). The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781444776485. Mahmoud Baroudi, 'of mixed Greek and Egyptian blood

External links

• Works by Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)