Ismail Sidky

Ismail Sidky Pasha (Arabic: إسماعيل صدقي‎) (15 June 1875 – 9 July 1950) was an Egyptian politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1930 to 1933 and again in 1946.

Ismail Sidky Pasha
إسماعيل صدقي
Ismail Sidky as Prime Minister in 1932
21st Prime Minister of Egypt
In office 17 February 1946 – 9 December 1946
Monarch	Farouk I
Preceded by	Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
Succeeded by	Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
In office 20 June 1930 – 22 September 1933
Monarch	Fuad I
Preceded by	Mostafa El-Nahas
Succeeded by	Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha
Personal details
Born	15 June 1875 Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt
Died	9 July 1950 (aged 75)
Political party	Wafd Party

Life and career

He was born in Alexandria and was originally named Isma'il Saddiq but his name was changed after his namesake fell out of favor.[1]

Sidky graduated from Collège des Frères in Cairo and the Khedival Law School, then joined the public prosecutor's office. In 1899 he became administrative secretary of the Alexandria municipal commission, serving until 1914, when he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and later Minister of Waqfs (Islamic endowments).

In 1915, Sidky joined the nationalist Wafd Party and was eventually deported to Malta with party founder Saad Zaghloul and other loyalists in 1919. Following World War I Sidky left the Wafd Party. He served as Minister of Finance in 1921 and 1922 and as Minister of Interior in 1922 and from 1924 to 1925. He then retired from politics.

He returned to politics in the 1930s to serve as Prime Minister from June 1930 to September 1933, running as a candidate for the People's Party. He was known as a strong leader and fought the influence of his former Wafd Party. He joined an all-party delegation to negotiate the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936, which established Egypt as a technically sovereign state, although still under British control.

In 1938 Sidky retired from politics again. He returned to politics one last time in February 1946 as Prime Minister, seeking to revise the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. After failing to unite Egypt and the Sudan under Egyptian sovereignty, Sidky resigned as Prime Minister on December 8, 1946. He was succeeded by Mahmoud en-Nokrashy Pasha.

References

1. Malak Badrawi (4 February 2014). Isma'il Sidqi, 1875-1950: Pragmatism and Vision in Twentieth Century Egypt. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78749-2.

External links

• The Sidqi years via Al-Ahram