Hamad Pasha Al-Basil

Hamad Pasha Al-Basil
Died	1940 (aged 68–69)
Occupation(s)	Political leader, founder of the Wafd Party, and revolutionary
Years active	1909–1938
Title	Pasha (Given by Abbas II)
Parent	Mahmoud bin Mohammad Al-Basil (father)
Relatives	Abdelsattar Mahmoud Al-Basil (Brother)

Hamad Pasha Al-Basil (1871 – 1940) was one of the leaders of the national movement in Egypt in 1919. He served as the tribal chief of Al-Rumah tribe in Fayoum, a member of the Legislative Assembly, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in 1924,^[1] and the deputy of the Egyptian Delegation, and he founded the Saadist Wafd Party.^[2]

He was a prominent figure in the national movement before the July Revolution and served as the deputy leader of the Wafd Party under the leadership of Saad Zaghloul and as the deputy in the parliament during the 1920s.

He was exiled along with Saad Zaghloul to Malta and Seychelles, which ignited the 1919 revolution in Egypt, starting from Fayoum, the birthplace of Hamad Pasha Al-Basil, where the first meeting of the Wafd Party was held before traveling to discuss Egypt's cause at the Paris Peace Conference.^[3]

He was honored by Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer on orders from President Gamal Abdel Nasser after the revolution, by lifting the guardianship from Al-Basil's properties in recognition of his honorable past.^[4]