Mounir Sabet

Mounir Sabet (sometimes spelled Mounir Thabet) (Arabic: منير ثابت‎) (born 29 October 1936)^[1] is an Egyptian general and sports official.

Born in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena, Mounir Sabet is the son of Saleh Sabet, an Egyptian pediatrician, and his Welsh wife Lily May Palmer.^[2] Mounir Sabet's sister Suzanne is the wife of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, thus the former First Lady of Egypt.^[3]

Mounir Sabet was a member of the 1965 Egyptian national shooting team.^[4] He served as president of the Egyptian Olympic Committee from 1990 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2009.^[5] He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1998.^[1]

See also

• List of members of the International Olympic Committee

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Olympic Movement. http://www.olympic.org/en/content/The-IOC/Members/General-Mounir-SABET/. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 
2. ^ Raafat, Samir (March 2005). "Egypt's First Ladies". Egy.com. http://www.egy.com/historica/egyptianconsorts.shtml. Retrieved 2010-10-07. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Hays, Kathleen; Morris, Valerie; Willis, Gerri (10 December 2003). "Deadly Checkmate" (Free with registration). Egypt Today. America's Intelligence Wire. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19667434_ITM. Retrieved 2010-10-07. "the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC), headed by Gen. Mounir Thabet, the brother of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak..." 
4. ^ "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. http://www.egolympic.org.eg/en/IOC_sabet.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 
5. ^ "Egyptian Olympic Committee Presidents 1910 until now" (in Arabic) (PDF, 2.86 MB). Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. http://www.egolympic.org.eg/ar/president_A.pdf. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 

Sporting positions
Preceded by Abdel Karim Darwish	President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee 1990–1993	Succeeded by Gamal ed-Din Mukhtar
Preceded by Gamal ed-Din Mukhtar	President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee 1996–2009	Succeeded by Mahmoud Ahmad Ali

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Name	Sabet, Mounir
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Date of birth	1936-10-29
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