Ahmed Sadeq Saad

Ahmed Sadeq Saad was born Isidor Salvador in 1919 in Shubra to a Jewish family that had settled in Egypt in the late 19th century. His father was a Sephardic Jew — who were expelled en masse from Spain in 1492 — and his mother was Ashkenazi, born in Odessa, now Ukraine. Saad graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at…