Muhammad Husayn Haykal

Muhammad Husayn Haykal was born in 1888 into a well-off family, in Kafr Ghannam, in the province of Daqahliya. After studying law in Egypt, he left for France and in 1912 defended a doctoral thesis in Paris on the Egyptian public debt. He wrote in the newspaper al-Jarida, then founded al-Siyasa, the organ of the Liberal Constitutional Party, of which he was one of the leaders. He was several times Minister of Public Instruction and, according to Universalis, presided over the Senate from 1945 to 1950. He died in Cairo in 1956.

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