Mostafa el-Nahas
Egyptian politician and Prime Minister (1879–1965)
Mostafa el-Nahas Pasha or Mostafa Nahas (Arabic: مصطفى النحاس باشا; June 15, 1879 – August 23, 1965) was an Egyptian politician who served as the Prime Minister for five terms, the most out of any politician during Egypt's parliamentary era. He was the leader of the Wafd Party after the death of its founder Saad Zaghloul.
Early life, education and exile
He was born in Samanud (Gharbiyya) where his father was a lumber merchant. He graduated from el-Nasiraiyah Elementary School in Cairo in 1891. He then graduated from the Khedivial Secondary School in 1896. After earning his license from the Khedivial Law School in 1900, he worked in Mohammad Farid's law office before opening his own practice in Mansoura. In 1904 he became a judge in the Tanta National Court. He was initially a member of the Watani party before joining Sa'ad Zaghloul's delegation - Arabic: Wafd - of Egyptian nationalists to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He was dismissed from the bench in 1919 when he joined the Wafd and was exiled with Saad Zaghlul to the Seychelles from December 1921 to 1923 during the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Nahas sided with Zaghloul during a split in 1921 between him and Adly Yakan; supporters of Yakan would later found the Liberal Constitutional Party.
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