Ibrahim Elfaqi

• Name — Ibrahim Al-Faqi • Born — 5 August 1950 • Birthplace — Alexandria, Egypt • Died — 10 February 2012 • Place of death — Nasr City, Cairo • Death Cause — Asphyxia • Citizenship — Egypt, Canada • Occupation — Coach, businessperson, author, motivational speaker • Website — http: ibrahimelfiky.com

Ibrahim Mohammed El-Saied Elfiki was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a table tennis player and the champion of Egyptian Table Tennis League for many years, and represented Egypt in the World Table Tennis Championships in Munich 1969. Married to Amal Atieh and had two daughters, Nancy and Nermin. In his professional life, he was promoted to the department director in the hospitality industry in the Helnan Palestine Hotel Alexandria. He immigrated to Canada to study management, and worked there as a dishwasher and a guard for a restaurant and porter in a hotel.

On Friday morning of February 10, 2012, Ibrahim Elfiki, his sister, and their housekeeper had been found dead after a fire broke out at his apartment. The fire had started in the Ibrahim Al-Faqi Center for Human Development on the third floor and extended to the rest of the property, in which he resided. Elfiki, his sister, Fawqiyah Muhammad ElFiki (62 years old) and Nawal (The housekeeper) died in the blaze.