Mounir Sabet (more properly 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 was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1998 to 2016 and became an Honorary Member in 2017.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "General Mounir Sabet". Official website of the Olympic Movement. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  2. ^ Raafat, Samir (March 2005). "Egypt's First Ladies". Egy.com. Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  3. ^ Hays, Kathleen; Morris, Valerie; Willis, Gerri (10 December 2003). "Deadly Checkmate" (Free with registration). Egypt Today. America's Intelligence Wire. Retrieved 7 October 2010. 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. Archived from the original on 2013-02-17. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Egyptian Olympic Committee Presidents 1910 until now" (PDF, 2.86 MB) (in Arabic). Official website of the Egyptian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
Sporting positions Preceded byAbdel Karim Darwish President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee 1990–1993 Succeeded byGamal ed-Din Mukhtar Preceded byGamal ed-Din Mukhtar President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee 1996–2009 Succeeded byMahmoud Ahmad Ali


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