Background
Chirine was born in Alexandria on 17 October 1919 to Hussein Chirine (died 1934) and Princess Amina Bahrouz Fadel (1886–1947). His mother was a Turkish Circassian. She died in an airplane accident near Rome, remarried Ali Rateb from Alexandria and his father married Gulsun Hanem Aflaton.
Education
He was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria, Great Chesterfield College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He served as commander in chief of the Egyptian army. His ancestors had relations to Muhammad Ali Dynasty. Chirine assumed different public posts in Egypt.
When Chirine returned from the United Kingdom he firstly worked for the Bank El Ahly El Masry.
Later he became an officer in the army, where his English language was useful during negotiations in 1948, together with Rahmani Bey who later became ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Chirine became colonel and field marshal in the army.
In 1948, he served as secretary of Egyptian delegation to the United Nations. Then he acted as aide-de-champ of King Farouk.
In 1949 he served as the press officer for the cabinet.
He briefly became defense minister of Egypt just before the Egyptian Revolution in 1952. Chirine died at military hospital in Alexandria on 14 June 1994. He was buried in Cairo.
Membership
He was a member of Egypt"s Rhodes delegation.