Mahmud Abu Al-Fath (Arabic: محمود أبو الفتح; 1885 – 15 August 1958 in Geneva) was an Egyptian journalist, founder and owner of the Wafdist newspaper Al Misri.
[2] He studied Law at the King Fuad I University in 1906, before working as a journalist at Al-Ahram.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.