{"id":"abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha","language":"en","name":"Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha","name_en":"Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha","name_ne":null,"description":"Egyptian politician (1873–1928)","headline":"Egyptian politician (1873–1928)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha (Arabic: عبد الخالق ثروت باشا; 1873–1928) was an Egyptian political figure. Sarwat served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1 March 1922 until 30 November 1922, and again between 26 April 1927 and 16 March 1928. He was instrumental in bringing Great Britain to issue its Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence in February 1922, which ended the British Protectorate of Egypt and recognized it to be an Independent Sovereign State. He was also Minister of Justice (1914–1919), Minister of Interior (16 March 1921 – 24 December 1921), Minister of Foreign Affairs (7 June 1926 – 18 April 1927) as well as the first Egyptian Attorney General (1908–1912).","summary_more":["Sarwat was born in Cairo in 1873. His father was Roznamji Egypt (Minister of Finance, in today's terms). He graduated with a License de droit from the Khedival School of Law in 1893 and spent the first 19 years of his career in the Ministry of Justice, following which he was appointed Minister of Justice (1914–1919). From 1918 and until his death, 10 years later, he became an important political figure in Egypt at a time when the country was struggling to obtain its full independence from Great Britain. He was close to a group of politicians who founded the Liberal Constitutional Party in October 1922, headed by Adly Yakan Pasha to whom Sarwat was very close. The party represented large land owners and the urban middle class. It had a gradualist approach to independence. The party was also joined by politicians who defected in 1921 from the Wafd, a movement formed in late 1918 to obtain the complete independence of Egypt from Great Britain and which was led by Saad Zaghloul Pasha, a popular charismatic leader who had the overwhelming support of the great majority of Egyptians.","In March 1919, soon after forming the Wafd, Saad was exiled to Malta by the British. This ignited the 1919…"],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1873","date":"1873"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Cairo","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"22 September 1928","date":"1928-09-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Paris","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Khedivate of Egypt","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127861"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"lawyer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40348"},{"text":"head of government","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2285706"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Prime Minister of Egypt (26 April 1927 – 16 March 1928)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1571396","start":"1927-04-26","end":"1928-03-16"},{"text":"Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Egypt (25 April 1927 – 16 March 1928)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070183","start":"1927-04-25","end":"1928-03-16"},{"text":"Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs (7 June 1926 – 21 April 1927)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79784648","start":"1926-06-07","end":"1927-04-21"},{"text":"Prime Minister of Egypt (1 March 1922 – 30 November 1922)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1571396","start":"1922-03-01","end":"1922-11-30"},{"text":"Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Egypt (1 March 1922 – 29 November 1922)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070183","start":"1922-03-01","end":"1922-11-29"},{"text":"Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1 March 1922 – 29 November 1922)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79784648","start":"1922-03-01","end":"1922-11-29"},{"text":"Minister of the Interior of Egypt (16 March 1921 – 29 November 1922)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070176","start":"1921-03-16","end":"1922-11-29"},{"text":"Minister of Justice (9 April 1919 – 22 April 1919)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070174","start":"1919-04-09","end":"1919-04-22"},{"text":"Minister of Justice (10 October 1917 – 9 April 1919)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070174","start":"1917-10-10","end":"1919-04-09"},{"text":"Minister of Justice (19 December 1914 – 9 October 1917)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070174","start":"1914-12-19","end":"1917-10-09"},{"text":"Minister of Justice (5 April 1914 – 19 December 1914)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101070174","start":"1914-04-05","end":"1914-12-19"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Khalek_Sarwat_Pasha","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha born?","a":"Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha was born on 1873 in Cairo."},{"q":"What positions has Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha held?","a":"Positions held by Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha include: Prime Minister of Egypt (1927–1928); Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Egypt (1927–1928); Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1926–1927); Prime Minister of Egypt (1922–1922); Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Egypt (1922–1922)."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Anwar Sadat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anwar-sadat"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Isma'il Pasha of Egypt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/isma-il-pasha-of-egypt"},{"name":"Mostafa Madbouly","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mostafa-madbouly"},{"name":"Saad Zaghloul","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/saad-zaghloul"},{"name":"Nubar Pasha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nubar-pasha"},{"name":"Boutros Ghali","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/boutros-ghali"},{"name":"Mostafa el-Nahas","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mostafa-el-nahas"},{"name":"Mahmoud Sami Elbaroudi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mahmoud-sami-elbaroudi"},{"name":"Mohamed Sherif Pasha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-sherif-pasha"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha-33c76337ec.jpg","width":500,"height":588,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Khalek_Sarwat_Pasha-_Portrait.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Khalek_Sarwat_Pasha","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4116115","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116115","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha- Portrait.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Khalek_Sarwat_Pasha-_Portrait.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha- Portrait.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha. Retrieved 8 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T09:28:17Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-08","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdel-khalek-sarwat-pasha?lang=ne"}}