My mother Dawlat with her older sister Amina Chamsi (Mrs Hassan Raafat Pasha)
grandparents Amin Chamsi Pasha (1833-1913) and Fatma Khorshed Talaat (1864-1909)
Father: Abbas-Baligh H Sabry (Fayum 1888 - Cairo 1951)
Mother: Dawlat (1892-1956) youngest child of Amin Chamsi Pasha and Fatma Khorshed Talaat
1948: my parents with my three brothers: Ismail, Ali and Hussein in our Maadi garden
1948: my sister Nadia on her wedding day to Air Force officer Kamal Hamada
CHILDHOOD
my parents insisted on an annual studio photo session. Here's the result!
school photo with me outlined in yellow
also in photo Hussein A Tewfik (white), Abou Seif Radi (purple) and David Gedaliah (red)
ARMY DAYS
1950
Italy 1950: On our way to an international water polo competition in Brussels
MY FAMILY
1954 Tying the knot with my lovely wife Maadiite Mona Z Shiaty in our Maadi villa
with Dawlat Chamsi
witness Ali Chamsi Pasha (brother of Dawlat)
1987: my son Hatem with wife Randa and their first-born daughter Nadine Sabry
February 2011: surrounded by my wife Mona, daughter Amina, granddaughters Nada and Dina Samra, and my youngest grandson Zeyad Samra
my great grandchildren (twins) Sami & Layla Fateen
almost same cast a few years earlier
and here is my youngest grandson again but still a toddler in Boston back in 1999
January 2011: my granddaughter Nadine H. Sabry's wedding at the Four Seasons, Garden City, Cairo
my globetrotting granddaughter Nora H. Sabry
with my youngest graddaughter Nora
November 2014: great-grandson Sami Fateen
May 2015: my lovely wife Mona Shiaty and our oldest grandson Karim Samra visiting from Boston
despite my being confined to a wheelchair following a stroke in June 2019 I was nevertheless able to attend the wedding of my yongest granddaugther Nora on 17 October 2019 at the Katameya Heights Country Club
