Mahmud Abu al-Fath

Mahmud Abu Al-Fath (Arabic: محمود أبو الفتح; 1885 – 15 August 1958 in Geneva) was an Egyptian journalist, founder and owner of the Wafdist newspaper Al Misri.[1]

Biography

Abu Al-Fath was born in 1885, and his father, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Al-Fath, was a professor of the Islamic law.[2] He studied Law at the King Fuad I University in 1906, before working as a journalist at Al-Ahram.[2]

He was a member of the Wafd Party in 1936 and founded Al Misri in the same year, then served in the Egyptian Senate during the World War II.[3]

In 1954, Abu Al-Fath was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in absentia for his criticisms of Nasser. He claimed asylum in Syria, later travelling to Iraq and taking Iraqi citizenship.[4]

References
  1. Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. (2000). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-55587-229-8.
  2. "British Documents" (PDF). Nasser Library. 3 February 1950. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2022. The information is given in the attachment of the document
  3. David Stenner (2016). "'Bitterness towards Egypt' – the Moroccan nationalist movement, revolutionary Cairo and the limits of anti-colonial solidarity". Cold War History. 16 (2): 165. doi:10.1080/14682745.2015.1100605. S2CID 155180500.
  4. Sami Moubayed (2012). Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower. London: I.B.Tauris. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-84885-705-6.
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