The Hero Ahmed Abdel Aziz - Press PhotoPart of the famous street in El-MohandeseenAnother part of the famous streetA different angle of the significant street in El-MohandeseenAhmed Abdel Aziz in Palestine during his heroic actsAhmed Abdel Aziz - Press PhotoCAIRO - 18 June 2019: In continuation of Egypt Today’s series of famous streets in Egypt, in the following lines Egypt Today shed light on another hero in the Egyptian history. He is the hero Ahmed Abdel Aziz (El-Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz in Arabic).A very famous street in Cairo’s upscale Mohandeseen district is named after him. Abdel Aziz was born on July 29, 1907, in the city of Khartoum in neighboring Sudan, where his father the Amirlai Mohammad Abdul Aziz was commander of the eighth battalion in a military mission in Sudan, in which he returned back to Egypt after his task was completed.Since a very young age, his patriotism and love for his country was very clear. At the age of twelve, he joined in the revolution of 1919 while he was still a student at the secondary school.In 1923, the hero was imprisoned for murdering an English officer, then released and deported to Mansoura. Abdel Aziz then joined the military school and was a distinguished officer of the cavalry unit.

Source: Egypt Today June 18, 2019 15:06 UTC