Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha

Nokrashy was born in Alexandria on 26 April 1888 to a middle-class family. His father was an Egyptian accountant from Nuqrash in Delta, and his mother, Hanifa was a Sunni Muslim who migrated from Greece during the Ottoman Empire.{{citation|year=2012|chapter=Nuqrashi, Mahmud Fahmi al|title=Dictionary of African Biography|editor-last1=Akyeampong|editor-first1=Emmanuel|editor-last2=Gates|editor-first2=Henry Louis ==Career==

Nokrashy Pasha was a member of the Saadist Institutional Party (SIP) which supported a liberal monarchist programme. He was also a member of the secret apparatus of the Wafd Party, Egypt's then main nationalist party. in an official visit, 1947 Nokrashy Pasha served as the prime minister of Egypt twice. His first term was from 1945 to 1946 (he initially came to power after the murder of Ahmad Mahir Pasha) and the second from 1946 to 1948. Rumours of a Brotherhood coup against the monarchy and government had appeared, and the Brotherhood had already been implicated in the killing of Nokrashy Pasha's predecessor. In addition to the Brotherhood being officially declared an illegal organization, the assets of the Brotherhood were seized by the government and many Brotherhood members went to prison. ==Assassination==

Less than three weeks after these activities against the Brotherhood, Nokrashy Pasha was gunned down by Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan, who was a veterinary student at the University of King Fouad I and another member of the Brotherhood. The slaying occurred on 28 December 1948 at 10:00 am.{{cite journal|last=Abed-Kotob|first=Sana|title=The Accommodationists Speak: Goals and Strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt Hassan was arrested after the murder, and confessed that he was a member of the Brotherhood. He reported that it was the prime minister's decision to crack down upon the Brotherhood that had motivated him to carry out the shooting. Found guilty at his trial, he was soon afterwards hanged; three men who had knowingly helped him plan the assassination were sentenced to penal servitude for life. == Notes ==