Mahmud Abu al-Fath

Mahmud Abu Al-Fath was an Egyptian journalist, founder and owner of the Wafdist newspaper Al Misri.

Biography

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