Mehemet Ali, who lived from 1767 to 1849, looms large in nineteenth-century Middle Eastern diplomatic history. Although at first simply the governor (pasha) of Ottoman Egypt, he ended up becoming a ...

A new statue of Mohamed Ali Pasha, the Albanian ruler of Egypt between 1805 and 1848, has been installed at the Egyptian National Military Museum located at Cairo's Citadel of Salah Al-Din Al-Ayoubi.