 In the first half of his life, Ali Pasha Sherif went by the name Ali Bey or Ali Bey Fahmy.As a teen, he attended the same elite boarding school at El-Khanka that his father had attended.His father next enrolled him in the École Militaire Égyptienne, a school established by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1844 in Paris to train men for effective service in the Egyptian military corps.