Mahmud Abu al-Fath (1885–1958) was an Egyptian journalist, founder and owner of the

Wafdist The New Wafd Party ( ar, حزب الوفد الجديد, , New Delegation Party), officially the Egyptian Wafd Party and also known as the Al-Wafd Party, is a nationalist liberal party in Egypt. It is the extension of one of the oldest and his ...

newspaper ''

Al Misri ''Al Misri'' ( ar, المصري, lit=The Egyptian) was a nationalist newspaper which was published in Cairo, Egypt, between 1936 and 1954. The paper was one of the most read newspapers during its lifetime and closed down by the Egyptian authoriti ...

''.

Biography

Abu Al-Fath was born in 1885, and his father, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Al-Fath, was a professor of the Islamic law. Mahmud Abu al-Fath was a member of the Wafd Party and served in the Egyptian Senate following

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. In 1954 Abu Al-Fath was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in absentia for his criticisms of

Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced Egyptian ...

. He claimed asylum in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, later travelling to

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

and taking Iraqi citizenship.

References

1885 births 1958 deaths Egyptian newspaper founders Egyptian emigrants to Iraq Naturalised citizens of Iraq Wafd Party politicians 20th-century Egyptian politicians {{egypt-journalist-stub