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(1872-1963)
Born on January 15, 1872, Ahmed Lotfi El-Sayed was a top-notch statesman, thinker and man of letters in the first half of the 20th century. In 1894, he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Cairo University. Three years later, he obtained another degree in philosophy. He began his career as a majestrate. Then he joined the bar for some time before he was appointed Curator of the National Library of Egypt. He held several high administrative and ministerial posts including:
• Rector, Cairo University Ahmed Lotfi El-Sayyed contributed to introducing modern press into Egypt. In 1907, he founded the daily newspaper "Al-Gareeda" which was a forum of his nationalist ideas. In 1912, he contributed to the founding of the Egyptian Press Syndicate. He played an active role in politics at a crucial juncture of Egypt's modern history, when the entire nation was being mobilised to put an end to foreign occupation and to initiate a viable political and constitutional reform. He was Secretary of the Ummah (Nation) Party during World War I. In 1918, he was a member of Egypt's delegation to the Paris Conference negotiating for Egypt's self-determination.
He died in 1963.
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