Muhammad Farid

• Name — Mohammad Farid • Native Name — محمد فريد • Born — 20 January 1868 • Birthplace — Cairo, Egypt • Died — 15 November 1919 • Place of death — Berlin, Germany • Political Party — National Party • Occupation — politician

Farid was born to an Egyptian Upper class family with distant Turkish descent and strong ties to Muhammad Ali Pasha.[3] Farid was the son of the director of el-Da'irah el-Saniyya (Royal state domains administration) and belonged to a landowning family. He attended the Khalil Agha School, the Ecole des Freres, and the School of Administration. He worked as a lawyer for the Egyptian government and for the Parquet (office of the attorney general).

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. Farid proceeded to open his own law office. Farid was the main political and financial supporter of Mustafa Kamil, the founder of the Egyptian National Party, and after his premature death in 1908, was elected second president of that party. He led the party in Egypt until March 1912 and then in exile until his death. He argued that the British must withdraw their army of occupation from Egypt and that only Egypt's monarch, the khedive, could grant a constitution to the Egyptians. He called for the spread of education and advocated social and economic reforms, especially to benefit workers. At times he sought help from the Ottoman Empire (to which the Egyptian khedivate still owed technical fealty), notably while in exile during World War I, but he also suspected the Turks of undermining Egyptian national aims.[5] Farid's occasional support for pan-Islam alienated Egyptian Copts.

Muhammad Farid is recorded with the occupation politician. Recorded as politician, journalist and writer.