Kamal Al Din Salah

Kamal Al Din Salah
Kamal Al Din Salah
Born	Mohammad Kamal Al Din Salah; 28 May 1910; Cairo, Sultanate of Egypt
Died	16 April 1957 (aged 46); Mogadishu
Cause of death	Assassination
Occupations	Jurist; Diplomat;
Spouse	Amina Murad

Kamal Al Din Salah (1910–1957) was an Egyptian jurist and diplomat. After serving as a diplomat in different countries he worked as a delegate of Egypt to the United Nations in Mogadishu, Somalia, where he was assassinated.

Biography[edit]

Salah was born in Cairo on 28 May 1910.^[1] He received a bachelor's degree in law from Cairo University in 1932.^[1] Upon graduation he worked as a lawyer.^[1] In 1936 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a diplomat in different countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Japan, Syria, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and France.^[1] In 1953 Salah was appointed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to the United Nations Advisory Council in Somalia as a delegate.^[2]

His wife was Amina Murad, a sister of Hilmi Murad who was a politician.^[2] Kamal and Amina had a son, Mohammad Farid.^[1] He was assassinated on 16 April 1957 in front of his residence in Mogadishu, Somalia.^[2]^[3] He was serving as the chairman of the UN Advisory Council on Italian Somaliland during the incident.^[3] Salah was posthumously awarded the Star of Somali Solidarity, and a street and a cultural center in Mogadishu were named after him.^[1]

A Somali man was arrested and sent to prison for life due to his involvement in Salah's assassination.^[1] The Italian colonists were also implicated in the murder.^[4] An Egyptian newspaper, Akhbar Al Youm, claimed on 20 April 1957 that the murderers of Salah were from Ethiopia.^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Mohammad Haji Mukhtar (2003). Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Lanham, MD; Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Helmi Sharawy. "from An Egyptian African Story". Asymptote. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Developments of the Quarter: Comment and Chronology". The Middle East Journal. 11 (3): 292. Summer 1957. JSTOR 4322924.
^ Al Shafi'I Abtadoun (14 July 2020). "Egypt and Somalia had warm relations in the past, but now it is lukewarm at best". Middle East Monitor. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

[mmh03-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Mohammad Haji Mukhtar (2003). Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Lanham, MD; Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8108-6604-1.

[helmi-2] Helmi Sharawy. "from An Egyptian African Story". Asymptote. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

[mej57-3] "Developments of the Quarter: Comment and Chronology". The Middle East Journal. 11 (3): 292. Summer 1957. JSTOR 4322924.

[4] Al Shafi'I Abtadoun (14 July 2020). "Egypt and Somalia had warm relations in the past, but now it is lukewarm at best". Middle East Monitor. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

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