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Egyptian general and sports official (1936–2024)

Mounir Sabet (more properly spelled Mounir Thabet) (Arabic: منير ثابت; 29 October 1936 – 3 March 2024) was an Egyptian general and sports official.

Biography

Born on 29 October 1936 in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena, Mounir Sabet was the son of Saleh Sabet, an Egyptian pediatrician, and his Welsh wife Lily May Palmer. Mounir Sabet's sister Suzanne was the wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, thus the former First Lady of Egypt.

Mounir Sabet was a member of the 1965 Egyptian national shooting team. He served as president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee from 1990 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2009. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1998 to 2016 and became an Honorary Member in 2017.

Sabet died on 3 March 2024, at the age of 87.

See also

References

  1. ^ "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Olympic Movement. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  2. Raafat, Samir (March 2005). "Egypt's First Ladies". Egy.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  3. 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...
  4. "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. "Egyptian Olympic Committee Presidents 1910 until now" (PDF, 2.86 MB) (in Arabic). Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  6. "وفاة منير ثابت شقيق سوزان مبارك حرم الرئيس المصري الأسبق". Alarabiya. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
Sporting positions
Preceded byAbdel Karim Darwish President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee
1990–1993 		Succeeded byGamal ed-Din Mukhtar
Preceded byGamal ed-Din Mukhtar President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee
1996–2009 		Succeeded byMahmoud Ahmad Ali


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