About Mahmud Abu al-Fath
Lived 1893 – 1958 (aged 64–65). Mahmud Abu al-Fath was an Egyptian journalist and journal editor.
Mahmud Abu Al-Fath (; 1885 – 15 August 1958 in Geneva) 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.
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.
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Egyptian journalist
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Mahmud Abu al-Fath was born in 1893 in Zagazig.
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Mahmud Abu al-Fath died on 15 August 1958 in Geneva.
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Mahmud Abu al-Fath was a journalist and journal editor.
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Mahmud Abu al-Fath was Egyptian.
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