Abbas Kamel

Abbas Kamel (born 1957) is an Egyptian major general who directed the General Intelligence Directorate from 2018 to 2024 and now advises the president on the security apparatuses ^{1 2}.

Kamel graduated from Egypt's Military College in 1978 as an armoured-corps officer; he took an advanced armament course in the United States and a strategy course for military attachés at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy ^{1 2}. No text read gives his birthplace or a fuller birth date than the year 1957 ^{1 3}.

Kamel served as deputy defence attaché in the Czech Republic and rose through the Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance department's attachés branch to head it ^{1 2}. In 2012 he became director of the office of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and in 2014 chief of staff to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ^{1 2}. Charged with the acting headship of the General Intelligence Directorate in January 2018, he was sworn in as its director on 28 June 2018; in 2021 he shuttled between Israeli and Palestinian officials after the Gaza fighting, meeting Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defence Minister Benny Gantz ^{2 1}. On 16 October 2024 el-Sisi appointed him presidential adviser and general coordinator of the security apparatuses, and the Arabic article adds the role of the president's special envoy ^{1 2}. No text read for this record names a faith for Kamel himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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