Nuqrāshī, Maḥmūd Fahmī al-

Nuqrāshī, Maḥmūd Fahmī al-

▪ prime minister of Egypt
also spelled  Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy 
born 1888, Alexandria, Egypt
died December 28, 1948, Cairo

      Egyptian politician who was prime minister of Egypt (1945–46, 1946–48).

      Al-Nuqrāshī was educated at University College (now University of Nottingham) in Nottingham, England. He taught school in Egypt before joining the government in 1920 as a subdirector in the ministry of agriculture. He later served as minister of communications (1930, 1936–37) and from 1938 to 1940 held the portfolio of the interior, of education, and of finance. In 1938 Al-Nuqrāshī was expelled from the Wafd party and joined the Saʿdist (or dissent Wafdist) party, becoming its president in 1945. Following the assassination of Aḥmad Māhir (Māhir, Aḥmad), Al-Nuqrāshī became prime minister on February 25, 1945. However, after a week of anti-British demonstrations in Cairo, during which several persons were killed, his government fell on February 15, 1946. He returned as prime minister on December 9, 1946, after the downfall of Ismāʿīl Ṣidqī (Ṣidqī, Ismāʿīl)'s government. On May 14, 1948, following the invasion of Palestine by the Egyptian army and the proclamation of a state of siege, Al-Nuqrāshī was appointed military governor of Egypt. He was assassinated in 1948, presumably by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a militant organization he tried to outlaw.

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