Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha

Mustafa Nahhas

Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha ( Arabic مصطفى النحاس باشا, DMG Muṣṭafā an-Naḥḥās Paša ; * June 15, 1879 in Samanud , Al-Gharbiyya ; † August 23, 1965 in Alexandria ), Egyptian-Arabic Mostafa El Nahas , was an Egyptian politician .

Education, Activities and Exile

He was born in Samanud as the son of a merchant. He graduated from school in 1896. In 1900, after studying law, he was admitted to the bar. In 1904 he became a judge. After joining the Wafd party , he was dismissed from the judge's office. He spent the years 1921 to 1923 together with his political companion Saad Zaghlul Pascha in exile in the Seychelles .

Political career

Back in Egypt, he became Minister of Education in 1924. He prevailed within the Wafd party as chairman and became Egyptian Prime Minister. He held this office in 1928, 1930, between 1936 and 1937, from 1942 to 1944, and finally between 1950 and 1952.

He was one of the co-founders of the Arab League in 1944 . During the Arab uprising, he founded a committee to strengthen the rights of Arabs in Palestine. In 1936 he was one of the signatories of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, which secured the presence of the British in Egypt. In 1951 he distanced himself from this contract. After the coup by Nasser in 1952, he was imprisoned. He and his wife were imprisoned in 1953 and 1954.

Nahhas Pascha died on August 23, 1965. His funeral led to a mass demonstration, which the Nasser government tolerated but not welcomed.

literature

• Arthur Goldschmidt, Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner, Boulder 2000.
• Saniyya Qurra'a. Nimr al-siyasa al-misriyya. Cairo 1952.
• Bernard Reich (Ed.): Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary. New York 1990.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Mustafa an-Nahhas Pascha in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .