Shams Badran

Early life and education

Badran was born on 19 April 1929.{{cite book|author=Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis|title=Nasser and His Generation

Career and activities

Badran was the head of Egypt's military security services in the mid-1960s.{{cite book|author=Gilles Kepel|title=Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onEVLpwB7OwC&pg=PA32|year=1985|publisher=University of California Press|page=32

Badran was appointed minister of war on 10 September 1966, a few months before the Six-Day War in June 1967, replacing Abdel Wahab Al Bishri in the post.{{cite web|title=Former Ministers of War and Defense

Following the defeat of the Egypt in the Six-Day War Badran was considered as a successor to the President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Conviction and later years

Badran along with other senior officials, including Amer, was detained on 25 August 1967 on charges of plotting against Nasser.{{cite news|title=Ex-Egyptian vice president arrested|access-date=30 January 2013|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=4 September 1967

Following his release from prison by president Anwar Sadat on 23 May 1974, Badran left Egypt and went to live in London.{{cite news|author=Mustafa el Fiqi|title=Shams Badran|access-date=30 January 2013|newspaper=Al-Masry Al-Youm|date=25 September 2008

Personal life

Badran married his first wife, Muna Rushdie, on 7 June 1962. The couple had one daughter named Hiba; they divorced in January 1989 by a court decision, as he had been absent for three years. Rushdie worked at The American University in Cairo. In the 1970s he married a British woman with whom he had two children. Badran lived with his family in "self-imposed exile" in the United Kingdom, though one of his children moved to Saudi Arabia and another to the United States.

On 28 November 2020, Badran died in the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust; however, he had asked to be buried in Egypt.

References

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