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Mahmud Abu al-Fath
Egyptian journalist and politician (1885–1958) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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