Mohamed Ahmed Zaki
Egyptian Minister of Defense
محمد أحمد زكي
Zaki in 2019
Incumbent
14 June 2018
12 August 2012 – 14 June 2018
Adly Mansour (acting)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
18 December 2008 – 11 August 2012
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (acting)
Mohamed Morsi
Egypt
Egyptian ArmyMohamed Ahmed Zaki Mohamed (Arabic: محمد أحمد زكي محمد; born 29 January 1956) is an Egyptian colonel general who has been minister of defense of Egypt since 14 June 2018. He previously held the command for the Egyptian Paratroopers from December 2008 to August 2012 and became the commander of the Republican Guard Forces until June 2018.
Zaki was sworn in on 14 June 2018, succeeding Sedki Sobhy as the minister of defense.[1] His appointment was a reward for arresting former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.[2][3]
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Commanders of the Egyptian Armed Forces since the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Commanders-in-Chief
- Mohamed Naguib (1952–53)
- Abdel Latif Boghdadi (1953–54)
- Abdel Hakim Amer (1954)
- Hussein el-Shafei (1954)
- Abdel Hakim Amer (1954–62)
- Abdel Wahab el-Beshry (1962–66)
- Shams Badran (1966–67)
- Abdel Wahab el-Beshry (1967)
- Amin Howeidi (1967–68)
- Mohamed Fawzi (1968–71)
- Mohammed Ahmed Sadek (1971–72)
- Ahmad Ismail Ali (1972–74)
- Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (1974–78)
- Kamal Hassan Ali (1978–80)
- Ahmed Badawi (1980–81)
- Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala (1981–89)
- Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb (1989–91)
- Muhammad Tantawi (1991–2012)
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (2012–14)
- Sedki Sobhy (2014–18)
- Mohamed Ahmed Zaki (2018–present)
the Armed Forces
- Mohamed Ibrahim Selim (1952–59)
- Abdel Hakim Amer (1959–64)
- Mohamed Fawzi (1964–67)
- Abdul Munim Riad (1967–69)
- Ahmad Ismail Ali (1969)
- Mohammed Ahmed Sadek (1969–71)
- Saad el-Shazly (1971–73)
- Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy (1973–74)
- Mohammed Aly Fahmy (1974–78)
- Ahmed Badawi (1978–80)
- Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala (1980–81)
- Abd Rab el-Nabi Hafez (1981–83)
- Ibrahim El-Orabi (1983–87)
- Safi al-Din Abu Shnaaf (1987–91)
- Salah Halabi (1991–95)
- Magdy Hatata (1995–2001)
- Hamdy Wahiba (2001–05)
- Sami Hafez Anan (2005–12)
- Sedki Sobhy (2012–14)
- Mahmoud Hegazy (2014–17)
- Mohammed Farid Hegazy (2017–21)
- Osama Askar (2021–present)
Italics indicate interim officeholder
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