National Party (Egypt)

Founded as an Egyptian nationalist political movement in 1895, the Watani was led by Mustafa Kamil Pasha, a Francophile journalist from Alexandria.

The National Party platform was composed mainly by the city bourgeoisie, the monarchy's sympathizers and also by the Khedive Abbas II, a noted anglophobe.

[1] The party published a newspaper from 1900, Al Liwa (Arabic: The Standard), with clear anti-British views.

In the same year, Abdul Hamid II nominated Mustafa Kamil as pasha for his support to the Ottoman Empire.

Under Farid's leadership, the party supported the monarchy, law and order policies and statism,[2] especially after the Prime Minister Boutros Ghali's assassination in 1910.

Mustafa Kamil Pasha , founder the National Party. He was also one of the most prominent figures of the Egyptian Nationalist Movement of the early 20th century