He was born in 1930 in Zuhur AlOmara Village, Dilingat, Behera governorate in Egypt. After completing his secondary education, he joined the military academy, and received the battalion command diploma from Stalin Academy USSR (1949) and graduated from Naser Academy for higher military education (Cairo 1961). He received a bachelor's degree in commerce from Cairo University and a diploma of honor from a war college in the US. __