Abd-El-Halim, known as Halim Pasha, an Egyptian prince, son of Mehemet Ali and a white slave woman, born at Cairo in 1826. He was educated at Paris, and of late resides near Cairo, in a magnificent palace celebrated for its beautiful pleasure grounds. The sultan has often taken his part in his family quarrels with his relatives Abbas and Said, the late viceroys, and Ismail Pasha, the present khedive. Abbas (1848-'54) endeavored even to appropriate Halim's property, but restored it to him at the request of the sultan, who also conferred upon Halim the rank of pasha and mushir (field marshal). Under Said he was for a short time a member of the family council, until that viceroy was formally recognized by the sultan (July, 1854). In 1855-'6 he officiated for a brief period as governor general at Khartoom. Since the accession of his nephew Ismail (1863), Halim has been more persecuted than in the reign of Abbas Pasha. In 1866, when the sultan consented to modify the organic Mohammedan laws of succession in favor of a direct line of hereditary rulers in Egypt, it was hoped that this would do away with the jealousy of Ismail Pasha against his uncle, but the khedive remains unfriendly.