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{{Short description|Egyptian journalist and political figure (1895–1979)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Fekry Abaza.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = 1895
| birth_place = [[Kafr Abu Shehata]], [[Egypt]]
| death_date = 9 February {{death year and age|1979|1895}}
| death_place = [[Cairo]], Egypt
| occupation = [[Journalist]]<br>Political activist
| spouse =
| children =
| alma mater = [[Cairo University]]
}}
'''Fekry Pasha Abaza''' (1895 – 9 February 1979) was an Egyptian journalist and democratic political [[activist]].

==Early life and education==
Abaza was born in 1895<ref name=nasl>{{cite web|title=British Documents|publisher=Nasser Library|date=3 February 1950|access-date=26 February 2022|page=2
|url=http://nasser.bibalex.org/Data/Docs/BritishDocumentsMerged///FO_371_80342-merged.pdf|quote=The information is given in the attachment of the document}}</ref> in the village of Kafr Abu Shehata in the East, Egypt. He was a member of the [[Abaza Family]].<ref name=nasl/> He was one of the first graduates of faculty of commerce at [[Cairo University]].<ref name=nasl/>

===Career===
Abaza began his journalism career by writing for the newspaper ''Al-Maiied'', and then for the newspaper ''[[Al-Ahram]]'' in 1919. He joined the [[National Democratic Party (Egypt)|National Democratic Party]] in 1921. Afterward, he served as an editor for the magazine ''[[Al-Musawar]]'' for two years before being promoted to editor in chief in 1926. He worked for the magazine until 1961 and occupied the position of chief editor of the monthly Egyptian magazine ''[[Al-Hilal (magazine)|Al-Hilal]]'' (Crescent) for several of those years. On 18 August 1961, the Egyptian government decided to relieve him from his duties, and said that the order was made by President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], as a result of a political article he allowed to be published.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ghada Hashem Talhami
|title=Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From Al Ahram to Al Ahali|publisher=Lexington Books|location=Lanham, MD
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvjUMM74vxYC&pg=PA152|date=2007|isbn=978-0-7391-5863-0|page=152}}</ref> From 1944 until being relieved as editor in chief, he was elected as a syndicate chairman for journalism over four consecutive election cycles.

===Later life and death===
Abaza was elected Honorary President of the Egyptian football club [[Al Ahly SC|Al Ahly]] and a member of the Supreme Council of the [[Egyptian National Library and Archives|Egyptian National Library]], receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Academy of Arts. Abaza was also an amateur musician, with a talent for playing the flute and mandolin. He also wrote a number of stories, including ''Khalaf El Habayeb'', ''Aldahek Albaky'' and ''Ahadeeth Fekry Abaza''. He died in Cairo on 9 February 1979.<ref>{{cite news|title= فكرى اباظه في ذمة الله|newspaper=Al-Ahram|location=Cairo
|pages=10, 13|language=ar|date=10 February 1979}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Abaza family]]
*[[Ottoman titles]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=KCz7N-GYKRcC&dq=abaza+family&pg=PA123 ''Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali'']
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{{Egyptian writers}}

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[[Category:National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians]]
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