CEMETERY PLAQUES & GATES
Prime Minister Mustafa Fahmi Pasha d. 15 September 1914 father of "Um al-Marsreyeen" Safeya Hanem and father in law of Wafd leader prime minister Saad Zaghloul Pasha
street sign in Helwan
Judge Saleh Hakki Pasha of Abdeen a brother in law of Ali Fahmi Bey who rests in a beautiful mausoleum nearby; grandfather of the late Aida Ahmed Hakki
Entrance to Aziz Izzet Pasha's Cemetery. Married to a niece of King Fouad he was the Kingdom of Egypt's first diplomatic representative to the Court of St. James, foreign minister (1935), regent (1936) and grandfather of reknown artist Leila Izzet
Hassan Kamel Khorshed Bey headmaster of Helmia Secondary School
General Hussein Muharram Pasha director of the Privy Purse (Khedivial Daira Khassa)
Mohammed Nafea Pasha of Koubeh Gardens
Doctor Sayed Naga
minister of finance Sir Abdelhamid Soliman Pasha
Sefer Yegen Pasha
plaque denotes the existence of a sabil dedicated to the memory of Sefer Yegen's wife Amina Yegen Hanem daughter of Ahmed Yegen Pasha
Ismail Assem Pasha senior member of Khedive Abbas II's court and a son in law of Ismail Yegen Pasha
General Omar Fathi Pasha ADC to King Farouk
Shamseldine Abdelghafar Pasha governor of Giza and son in law of prime minister Abdelkhalek Sarwat Pasha
dean of faculty of engineering and noted poet Ibrahim Adham Demerdash
photos by Samir W Raafat
Abdelrahman Fahmi Pasha whose original name was Aamer was the younger brother of Mohammed Pasha Maher, Minister of Warfare (19 century) and former Governor of Alexandria. Maher and Fahmi were brothers, both of whom chose their respective individual surnames, abandoning the 'Aamer' name.
Originally a military man in his youth Fahmi had been part of the Egyptian conquest of the Sudan. He also created the trade union movement/labour movement in Egypt but in the same breath reminded the 'labour not to bite off the hand that fed them'. Historians including Mohammed Anis consider Abdelrahman Pasha Fahmi the mastermind behind the political underground of the 1919 Revolution (aka 'The Vengeance Society'). In a revealing letter written by Fahmi to Saad Zaghloul he told him to place the Coptic priest in the mosque, and a sheikh in the church so as to foil British attempts aimed at sectarian division.
At first devoted to Zaghloul he eventually agreed with Wafd dissenter Ismail Sidky Pasha that Zaghloul was a would-be megalomania. When Fahmi exited his imprisonment and well after the success of the 1919 revolution, he was confronted with a situation where Saad Zaghloul was seated in a chair receiving an assembly of the most influential Pashas and revolutionaries of the time, one by one they lined up to kiss his hand. Fahmi walked in, said Salam Allaykum, and made his exit into retirement. Later he co-founded Akhbar al Youm newspaper and at some point was editor in chief of Rose El Youssef magazine.
Fahmi's first wife was a Circassian by the name of Nafisa Sirri Sawari Balouli Agha, daughter of Malak Roxy. Fahmi then married a second time, his first wife having died in child birth of his second son Mourad. His third son was Mohieldin Fahmi. Mourad Fahmi Pasha was former Minister for Public Works under King Farouk and for two years under Naguib. He resigned when Nasser came to power.
Fahmi was the paternal uncle of prime ministers: Ahmed Maher Pasha and Aly Maher Pasha.
(source: Fatma Bassiouni spokeswoman UNHCR and descendant of Abdelrahman Fahmi Pasha)
street signs honoring Abdelrahman Fahmi Pasha in the districts of Helwan and Garden City
Assortment of plaques and stelas belonging to the families of Mowelhy brothers: Ibrahim Al-Mowelhy Pasha (1846-1906; poet, journalist, publisher) and Abdelsalaam Al-Mowelhy Pasha (d. 12 December 1910; politician). Members of the Hegazi Ashraaf the Egyptian Mowelhy branch, leading silk merchants, married into the Al-Bakry family earning themselves special standing within the khedivial court in Egypt and the sultanic court in Istanbul.