Boutros Ghali was the prime minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910.
16 Facts About Boutros Ghali
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Boutros Ghali was born on 12 May 1846 to a Coptic Christian family in Kiman-al-'Arus, a village of Beni Suef, Egypt, in 1846.
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Boutros Ghali's father was Ghali Nayruz, the steward of Prince Mustafa Fadil.
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Boutros Ghali studied Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, English and French.
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Boutros Ghali began to work in the justice ministry in 1879 and was appointed secretary general of the ministry with the title of Bey.
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Boutros Ghali's following post was as first secretary of the council of ministers to which he was appointed in September 1881.
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Boutros Ghali was appointed prime minister on 8 November 1908, replacing Mustafa Fahmi Pasha in the post.
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Boutros Ghali retained the post of foreign minister during his premiership.
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Boutros Ghali remained in office until 21 February 1910 and was replaced by Muhammad Said Pasha.
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Boutros Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident.
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On 20 February 1910, Boutros Ghali was shot by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a twenty-three-year-old pharmacology graduate, who had just returned from Britain.
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Boutros Ghali was leaving the ministry of foreign affairs when Wardani fired five shots, three of which lodged in the premier's body.
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The assassin, who confessed to the killing of Boutros Ghali, had been educated in Lausanne, Paris, and London and was a member of Mustafa Kamil Pasha's Watani Party.
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Boutros Ghali's father was a governor and his uncle was a Pasha.
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The assassination of Boutros Ghali was the first of a series of assassinations that continued until 1915.
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Boutros Ghali's brother Amin Ghali was a public prosecutor; Amin's son Ibrahim Amin Ghali was a diplomat who worked to rehabilitate his uncle's reputation.