Ahmed Zulfikar

Zulfikar died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 57 on Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.

In 1979, Zulfikar resigned from working for Arab Contractors and traveled to Germany for studying modern irrigation technology and returned to Egypt after a year to establish his first private corporation TOCEG Misr at the age of 27 years.

Zulfikar worked for over three decades in the design and construction of modern irrigation systems and had a major role in converting tens of thousands of acres from flood irrigation to modern irrigation in the period from 1979 to 2010. He participated in the establishment of golf courses with automated irrigation systems according to international standards. He was involved with landscaping projects in hotels and resorts all over Egypt.

Ahmed Zulfikar married Mrs. Inas El Imam in Cairo in 1978 and the couple remained happily married until his death in 2010. Together they had two sons, Salah and Karim. The elder; Salah Zulfikar (1979- ) is a corporate regional director and the younger; Karim Zulfikar (1984-) is a businessman owning his own corporation.

Despite growing up in the midst of an artistic family, his father, Salah Zulfikar, a famous actor, and his uncles, Ezz El Dine Zulfikar and Mahmoud Zulfikar, were famous directors and producers in Egyptian cinema at the time, Zulfikar was not enthusiastic about working in the movie business and chose another path away from fame and became what he always wished for, to be an engineer. He received his BA in Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University in 1976.

Ahmed Mourad Salah El-Din Zulfikar (15 August 1952 – 1 May 2010) was an Egyptian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He worked for three decades in the field of infrastructure. Zulfikar was one of the first founders of the modern irrigation systems technology in Egypt.

Ahmed Mourad Salah El-Din Zulfikar was born on August 15, 1952, in Abbassia neighborhood of Cairo to a well-off family. His father was the actor and producer Salah Zulfikar, a police officer at the time, and his mother was Mrs. Nafisa Bahgat. He has one sister, Mona Zulficar, a lawyer.