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Saad Zaghloul (Arabic سعد زغلول; also: Saad Zaghlul, Sa'd Zaghloul Pasha ibn Ibrahim) (1859-August 23, 1927) was an Egyptian political figure. He served as prime minister of Egypt from 26 January 1924 to 24 November 1924.

[edit] Education and activism

Zaghloul was a native of Ibyana village, Kafr EL Sheikh Governorate in the Delta. He attended Al-Azhar University and in the 1880s became politically active for which he was arrested. After his release he went on to practice law. He became increasingly active as a nationalist and in 1918 led a delegation demanding complete independence from Britain. After this he was deported to Malta and later Seychelles, which caused disturbances in Egypt. (Encyclopedia Americana, pg 739)

[edit] Political history

Saad Zaghloul led the nationalist forces. The elections of January 12, 1924, gave the Wafd Party an overwhelming majority, and two weeks later Zaghloul formed the first Wafdist government. As P.J. Vatikiotis says in The History of Modern Egypt (4th ed., pp. 279 ff.), "The masses considered Zaghloul their national leader, the za'im al-umma, the uncompromising national hero. His opponents were equally discredited as compromisers in the eyes of the masses. Yet he also had finally come to power partly because he had compromised with the palace group and implicitly accepted the conditions governing the safeguarding of British interests in Egypt." Following the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan, on November 19, 1924, and subsequent British demands which Zaghloul felt were unacceptable, he resigned, to play no further role in government.

[edit] Family

His wife, Safiyya Zaghloul, the daughter of Mustafa Fahmi Pasha, was also active in politics, was a feminist and revolutionary.

Preceded by Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha	Prime Minister of Egypt 1924	Succeeded by Ahmad Ziwar Pasha

[edit] Further reading

Vatikiotis, P.J. (1991). The History of Modern Egypt. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4215-8.

[edit] External links

Al-Ahram: "The bitter harvest" An account of the 1924 assassination in Cairo of Sir Oliver (Lee) Stack and its consequences for Egypt and Zaghloul
"High Tea, Low Lunch". Time Magazine. 1926-06-14. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,751532,00.html. Retrieved 2008-08-09. A 1926 story about Zaghloul's attempt to return to power

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[edit] Education and activism

[edit] Political history

[edit] Family

[edit] Further reading

[edit] External links