Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi | |
Order: | 5th |
Office: | Prime Minister of Egypt |
Term Start: | 4 February 1882 |
Term End: | 26 May 1882 |
Predecessor: | Mohamed Sherif Pasha |
Successor: | Raghib Pasha |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1839 |
Birth Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
Death Place: | Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi (Arabic: محمود سامي البارودي; June 11, 1839 – December 11, 1904) was a significant Egyptian political figure, and a prominent poet. He served as 5th Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 February, 1882 until 26 May, 1882. He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم ("lord of sword and pen").[1] His father belonged to an Ottoman-Egyptian family while his mother was a Greek woman who converted to Islam upon marrying his father.[2] [3]
He wrote more than 370 poems,[4] for instance: " Everyone who is alive, will die." (In Arabic:كُلّ حيّ سيموت). [5]