List of Albanians in Egypt

Main article: Albanians in Egypt

This is a list that includes both Egyptian people of Albanian descent and Albanian immigrants that have resided in Egypt. The list is sorted by the fields or occupations in which the notable individual has maintained the most influence.

Monarchs and sultans

• Muhammad Ali of Egypt – Ottoman Albanian commander in the Ottoman army, who rose to the rank of Pasha, and became Wāli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ^{[1] [2]}
• Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt – Eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and unrecognised Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ^{[3] [4]}
• Abbas I of Egypt – Wāli of Egypt and Sudan
• Sa'id of Egypt – Wāli of Egypt and Sudan from 1854 until 1863
• Isma'il Pasha – Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879
• Tewfik Pasha – Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan between 1879 and 1892 and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Hussein Kamel of Egypt – Sultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917
• Fuad I of Egypt – Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan
• Abbas Helmi II of Egypt – Khedive of Egypt and Sudan
• Hussein Kamel of Egypt – Sultan of Egypt
• Mohammed Ali Tewfik – Heir presumptive of Egypt and Sudan from 1892 to 1899 and 1936 to 1952

• 
  Muhammad Ali of Egypt
• 
  Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
• 
  Sa'id of Egypt
• 
  Tewfik Pasha
• 
  Fuad I of Egypt

Kings

• Farouk of Egypt – Tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan ^{[5] [6] [7]}
• Fuad II of Egypt – Member of the Egyptian Muhammad Ali dynasty ^[8]

• 
  Farouk of Egypt

Prime Ministers

• Said Halim Pasha – Ottoman statesman of Tosk origin who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1917

• 
  Said Halim Pasha

Princes

• Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein – The son of Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt ^[9]
• Mohamed Abdel Moneim – Egyptian prince and former heir apparent to the throne of Egypt and Sudan from 1899 to 1914
• Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id – Heir apparent to the abolished thrones of Egypt and Sudan ^[10]
• Prince Omar Toussoun – Member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt.
• Ahmad Rifaat Pasha – Member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt. He was heir presumptive to Sa'id Pasha
• Hassan Aziz Hassan – Egyptian prince ^[11]

• 
  Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein
• 
  Muhammad Abdel Moneim
• 
  Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id

Princesses

• Fawzia Fuad of Egypt – Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran ^[12]
• Princess Farial of Egypt – Eldest child of Egypt's penultimate monarch, King Farouk
• Faika of Egypt – Egyptian royal and a member of the Mohammad Ali Dynasty
• Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt – Second daughter of King Farouk I of Egypt from his first wife Queen Farida
• Princess Fadia of Egypt – Daughter of the late King Farouk of Egypt
• Faiza Rauf – Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt – Egyptian princess and daughter of Fuad II
• Fathia Ghali – Youngest daughter of Fuad I of Egypt and Nazli Sabri, and so the youngest sister of Farouk I
• Emina Ilhamy – Egyptian and Ottoman princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Zeynab Ilhamy – Egyptian and Ottoman princess
• Tevhide Ilhamy – Egyptian and Ottoman princess
• Shivakiar Ibrahim – Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Shahnaz Pahlavi – First child of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife, Princess Fawzia of Egypt ^[13]
• Ayn-al-Hayat Rifaat – Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Shafaq Nur Hanim – Princess consort of Khedive Isma'il Pasha

• 
  Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
• 
  Fathia Ghali
• 
  Emina Ilhamy
• 
  Shivakiar Ibrahim
• 
  Shahnaz Pahlavi

Politicians

• Aziz Ezzat Pasha – Egyptian Politician ^[14]
• Adel Darwish – British political journalist, a veteran Fleet Street reporter, author, historian

Military

• Abidin Bey – Albanian commander and politician of Egypt ^[15]
• Tusun Pasha – Son of Muhammad Ali, wali of Egypt between 1805 and 1849 ^[16]
• Tahir Pasha – Albanian commander of bashi-bazouks under Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha ^[17]
• Ibrahim Ilhamy Pasha – Only surviving son of Abbas I of Egypt
• Ismail Chirine – He served as commander in chief of the Egyptian army
• Ahmad Ismail Ali – Egypt's army and minister of war during the October War of 1973

• 
  Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha
• 
  Ahmad Ismail Ali

Business and finance

• Prince Abbas Hilmi – Egyptian and Imperial Ottoman prince and financial manager. In 2006, he founded the Friends of Manial Palace Museum Association, which seeks to preserve the palace of his granduncle Prince Muhammad Ali. ^[18]

Musicians

• Tefta Tashko-Koço – Well-known Albanian singer of the 1930s ^{[19] [20]}

• 
  Tefta Tashko-Koço

Writers

• Filip Shiroka - Albanian poet and writer who lived and worked in Egypt for a while. ^[21]
• Ismail Joubert – South African and Egyptian poet and writer.

• 
  Filip Shiroka

References

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2. Kiel, Machiel (1990). Ottoman architecture in Albania, 1385–1912. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture.
3. Gibb, Sir Hamilton (1954). The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill. p. 266.
4. Kiel, Machiel (1990). Ottoman architecture in Albania, 1385–1912. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture.
5. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1980). "The French Ancestry of King Farouk of Egypt". Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. II: Africa & the Middle East. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 287. ISBN   978-0-85011-029-6. OCLC   18496936.
6. Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000). Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p.  191. ISBN   1-55587-229-8.
7. "Ancestors of Queen Nazli" (JPG). Egy.com. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
8. Lagnado, Lucette (18 September 2010). "The Lonely King Without a Throne". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 10 October 2010. He has a passport from Monaco that identifies him as His Royal Highness Prince Ahmed Fouad Farouk.
9. "New Ruler of Egypt Is a Dancing Sultan" (PDF). The New York Times : SM6. 27 December 1914. Retrieved 2009-08-09. Sultan Hussein's son, Kemal Eddine, now becomes Crown Prince and next heir to the throne.
10. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke’s Royal Families of the World: Volume II. Burke's Peerage. 1980. pp. 26-27, 34-37, 287. ISBN   0-85011-029-7
11. "Prince Hassan Aziz Hassan". Telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-02-27. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
12. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1980). "The French Ancestry of King Farouk of Egypt". Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. II: Africa & the Middle East. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 287. ISBN   978-0-85011-029-6. OCLC   18496936.
13. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1980). "The French Ancestry of King Farouk of Egypt". Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. II: Africa & the Middle East. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 287. ISBN   978-0-85011-029-6. OCLC   18496936.
14. "Genealogy of Aziz Ezzat Pasha". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
15. Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011-07-31). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 294. ISBN   978-1-59884-336-1 . Retrieved 21 February 2012.
16. Tosun Pasa, IMDb.com
17.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Egypt: III History § From the French Occupation to the Rise of Mehemet Ali". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 107.
18. "A princely estate". Al-Ahram Weekly (851). 28 June – 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
19. "Tefta Tashko-Koço–Biography". teksteshqip.com (in Albanian).
20. "Tefta Tashko-Koço". enokoco.com.
21. Vila, Besa (1986), Zani i zemrës dhe shkrime të tjera (in Albanian), Tirana: Naim Frashëri Publishing House, p. 4