Sami Sharaf

Sharaf was born in Heliopolis, Cairo on 20 April 1929. His father, Mohamed Abdel Aziz Sharaf, was a physician who was trained in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and served as the director of Beni Suef Governorate.{{cite news|title=Nasser's Head of Presidential Office Sami Sharaf dies at 93|access-date=20 August 2023 Sharaf graduated from the Military Academy in February 1949. One of his teachers at the academy was Gamal Abdel Nasser. ==Career and activities==

Following his graduation Sharaf joined the army. He was primarily in charge of the security of the President Gamal Abdel Nasser being one of Nasser's personal support personnel. Sharaf's tenure ended on 13 May 1971 when he resigned from office. Sharaf was sentenced to death, but in December 1971 his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. He was released from the prison on 15 May 1981. Sharaf was among the cofounders of the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party, but later he left it.{{cite news|author=Gamal Nkrumah|title=Shadows of the Revolution. Sami Sharaf|url=https://elw3yalarabi.org/samy-sharaf/SMY-Ahram-Weekly-UK1.html Sharaf was an anti-communist and supported the establishment of a capitalist state.{{cite journal|author=Ibrahim G. Aoudé|title=From national bourgeois development to Infitah: Egypt 1952-1992|journal=Arab Studies Quarterly|date=Winter 1994|volume=16|issue=1|page=11 Sharaf published a book on his memoirs, Sanawat wa ayam ma‘ Jamal ‘Abd al Nasir: Shahadat Sami Sharaf, in 2006.{{cite journal|page=10 ==Personal life and death==

Sharaf was married and had four children. He died in Cairo on 23 January 2023 at the age of 93.{{cite news In popular culture Sami Sharaf was one of the characters in the 1996 Egyptian film Nasser 56 and in the 2001 Egyptian film entitled The Days of Sadat.{{cite book|editor=Walter Armbrust|title=Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond ==References==