Egypt Head of state

Hosni Mubarak

حسني مبارك

Head of state Independent Inactive Verified

President of Egypt 1981-2011 (1928-2020). Took office after Sadat's assassination; ruled under emergency law for three decades until forced from office by the January 25 revolution. Acquitted in 2017 of charges related to protester deaths during the uprising.

Country: Egypt
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Head of state
Status: Historical figure

Position

Hosni Mubarak governs without formal party mediation and has no source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Hosni Mubarak that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

I will die on Egyptian soil.

سأحيا على هذه الأرض ساعاتي الأخيرة وسأموت في ترابها.

2011 Defiant televised address on the eighth day of the Tahrir Square uprising in February 2011, rejecting calls to resign while pledging not to seek another term. The line went unhonoured ten days later. en.wikiquote.org · en.wikipedia.org
I will not run again. I have served Egypt for 30 years. My son will not run either. The decision is up to the people.

لن أترشح مرة أخرى. لقد خدمت مصر ثلاثين عاماً. وابني لن يترشح. القرار للشعب.

2011 February 1 2011 second televised address during the Tahrir Square uprising — the speech in which the speaker tried to defuse the crisis with a partial concession on succession. en.wikiquote.org · en.wikipedia.org

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Hosni Mubarak [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mubarak

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Hosni Mubarak." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mubarak.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-mubarak,
  title     = {{Hosni Mubarak}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mubarak},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.