abstract:The Wafd Party ("Delegation Party"; Arabic: Hizb al-Wafd حزب الوفد) was a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt. It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period in the 1920s and 30s.
Fouad Serageddin, the octogenarian boss of the conservative New WafdParty, served as interior minister in King Farouk's last government before the 1952 revolution.
The symbol of the crescent embracing the cross was the banner of the 1919 revolution against British control of Egypt, and became the badge of the nationalist Wafdparty which dominated Egyptian politics until the early 1950s.
Its founder, Leon Castro, a Jew, was also the spokesman of the largest Egyptian political party, the Wafd, related to the largest opposition party taking part in this week's demonstrations.