The growing political influence of the commission angered Ahmed Urabi, an Egyptian officer, who led an uprising against the government.

Foreigners in Egypt were not subject to Egyptian law, but a separate legal system called the Capitulations.

[16] Alexanderia and Cairo had large populations of French, Greeks and Italians who contributed to the cosmopolitan atmosphere and culture of the big cities.

None of these factions has a goal other than dividing up the seats in parliament, obtaining government office, and managing election campaigns through passing out ballots.

"[20] The 1929 Great Depression revealed the stark economic disparities between the peasants, the majority underbelly of Egyptian society, and the well-off land-owning elite, motivating social unrest in Egypt.

His first major change was the creation of a new constitution, which granted the executive – the King – more powers over the democratically elected parliament.

[22] Opponents of Sidqi, the Wafdist Mustofa el-Nahhas and the Liberal Constitutionalist Muhammed Mahmud, were vehemently opposed to the new constitution, organizing protests against this move.

During the 1935–36 protests in Egypt, the opposition agreed to enter negotiations with Britain, specifically regarding the lack of an Egyptian military, British troop presence, and the Mixed Courts.

Hussein had been a supporter of the Liberal Constitutional Party's leader Muhammed Mahmud Pasha during his last year in secondary school.

[28] Young Egypt emerged as a student organization that existed outside of the control of the traditional Egyptian parties.

[25] It was during this time that future Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser joined these protests, though whether he was a formal member is debated among historians.

[38][39] During the Montreux negotiations of 1937 for the abolition of the capitulatory system in Egypt, Hussein wrote: "If he [Nahas] had a spark of patriotism, he would prefer to remain in his own house, strong, and to invite the foreigners to come to him.

After the Wafd's victory in the 1936 elections, the Wafdist leader Mostafa el-Nahas accused Young Egypt with collaborating with a foreign power, implying Italy.

Until its wartime ban in 1941, the only parliamentary election it could have participated in was in 1938, however none of its members met the minimum age of 30 to run for office.

[49] It was around this time that Young Egypt began to decline, due to the Wafdist government ordering crackdowns such as preventing meetings and issues fines and arrests for members, ironically under the government of Muhammed Mahmud Pasha, whom Hussein had supported before founding Young Egypt.

"[52] Ahmed Hussein saw in his vision of Egypt a country that has only been recently held back by foreigners, and that should return to its former glory, saying: "I will tell you, gentlemen, a reality which I discovered in Europe.

This means that if you strip from them this learning and this knowledge which they have won through striving and study, you will find Europeans close to the barbarism of prehistoric times.

"[53] Hussein believed that while Europe had abandoned religion for "godless, materialist principles", modern Egypt's religious culture made it superior.