15 Facts About Shams Badran

Shams Al Din Badran was an Egyptian government official.

Shams Badran served as minister of war of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era and the Six-Day War of 1967.

Shams Badran was removed from his post during the war and later imprisoned.

Shams Badran was the head of Egypt's military security services in the mid-1960s.

Shams Badran served as the office manager of Field Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer under Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency.

Shams 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.

Shams Badran was named as the chief of Nasser's cabinet the same year.

Shams Badran met with the Fatah members in the late 1966.

On 25 May 1967, Shams Badran visited Moscow and met senior Soviet officials, including Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, to secure their support regarding a perceived Israeli threat.

Shams Badran resigned from office on 10 June 1967, during the Six-Day War, and was replaced by Abdel Wahab Al Bishri, interim minister of war.

Shams Badran published part of his memoirs in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa in 2014.

Shams Badran's reports included information about the personal life of Gamal Abdel Nasser which were disputed by Sami Sharaf, a Nasser era official.

Shams Badran married his first wife, Muna Rushdie, on 7 June 1962.

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