Mohammad Farid

Mohammad Farid (or Muhammad Farîd; Arabic: محمد فريد; January 20, 1868 in Cairo – November 15, 1919 in Berlin) was an influential Egyptian political figure.

Farid was born to an Egyptian Upper class family with distant Turkish descent and strong ties to Muhammad Ali Pasha.

[3][4] Farid was the son of the director of el-Da'irah el-Saniyya (Royal state domains administration) and belonged to a landowning family.

He was dismissed for backing Shaykh Ali Yusuf, a popular Egyptian newspaper editor who was tried for publishing secret telegrams taken from the War Ministry.

Historian Fawaz Gerges identifies Farid as exemplifying "the emergence of a politics of exile as a means to sustain the struggle against British colonialism.

Mohammed Farid Statue - Abdeen - Cairo