Muḥammad Farīd (1868-1919) was a prominent Egyptian nationalist politician during the early phase of British colonial rule and the second leader of al-Ḥizb al-Waṭanī (National Party), which he co-founded with Muṣṭafā Kāmil (1874-1908) and others as a secret society in 1893 and a formal political party in 1907. Farīd was born in Cairo into a wealthy landed family. He attended several of the new Western-modelled schools established by the khedivial regime. After graduating from the School of Administration and Languages (Madrasat al-Idāra wa-