Abbud Pasha

Muhammad Ahmad Abbud Pasha (Arabic: محمد أحمد عبود باشا‎) (1899–1963) was an Egyptian entrepreneur and business magnate.

Abbud Pasha being served cigarettes at a Ramadan party organized by King Farouk

Abbud received his education in engineering from the University of Glasgow. He began work in pre-WWI Ottoman Iraq in irrigation. During World War I, he worked in railroad planning in Syria and Palestine. Abbud established a construction firm in Egypt in 1924, which originally focused on contract work on government-financed irrigation canals. Between 1929–1933, his construction company developed improvements to height on the Aswan Dam. His company also found success doing work on a plethora of state projects.[1]

By the 1940s, he owned the Sugar Company, the Khedival Mail Line as well as the Egyptian General Omnibus Company. In addition, he was the largest shareholder of Banque Misr, and obtained a seat on its board of directors in 1950. In the same year, he became the first Egyptian director of the Suez Canal Company, which was then owned by foreigners.

Abbud received the noble title of Pasha on 14 February 1931.[2] He was also active in politics. He became a parliamentary deputy in 1926, representing the Wafd Party which he supported financially until Mustafa el-Nahhas became its leader in 1927. Abbud later reconciled with the party and started supporting it once again during its final years in power, and was close to party strongman Fuad Siraj al-Din.

Abbud Pasha died in London in 1963, and was reported to be among the ten richest men in the world at the time of his death.

References
General
  • Beinin, Joel (1998). "Chapter 13 – Egypt: society and economy, 1923–1952". In M. W. Daly (ed.). The Cambridge History of Egypt. Volume Two: Modern Egypt from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 327–328. ISBN 978-0-521-47211-1. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
  • "Biography of Abbud Pasha". Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive (in Arabic). Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
Specific
  1. Mitchell, Timothy (2002). Rule of Experts. University of California Press. p. 31. ISBN 9780520928251.
  2. "List of Pashas 1915–52". Egy.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-10.


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