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. 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.