Mohamed Kamel Abdul Rahim

Mohamed Kamel Abdul Rahim became ambassador in September 1948 and remained Egypt’s representative after the officers’ revolution of July 1952. At a New York meeting with Dean Acheson that November, he accompanied Foreign Minister Ahmed Farrag Tayeh in seeking material help for the new government. Abdul Rahim specifically asked whether the United States could buy Egyptian cotton to improve Egypt’s finances even if it did not need additional supplies. ^{1, 2}