Career
He was one of the second row of 1952 revolution officers, he was the head of Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate from 1956 to 1957
He was Prime Minister of Egypt from September 1962 to October 1965. When Gamal Nasser died in 1970, Anwar Sadat was regarded as Nasser"s most likely successor, but Sabri was regarded as the next most likely. Both Sadat and Sabri had heart attacks which they survived at Nasser"s funeral.
Sabri was the vice-president and regarded as the northern
2 figure in Sadat"s government. However shortly after Sadat came to power he was the most notable casualty of Sadat"s "Corrective Revolution", and was imprisoned.
Following the failure of what historian term the "Urabi Rebellion" of 1882, Khedive Tewfik imprisoned Shamsi Pasha later releasing him on a hefty bail. He resumed his seat at the General Assembly until his death.
One of Ali Sabri’s paternal grand-uncles was Mohammed Faizi Pasha (1840-1911), a director-general of the Awqaf Department during the reign of Khedive Abbas Hilmi World War II