"Judges and two laws" .. Omar Beck Lotfi lawyer, who founded the Ahli club and resisted colonialism

Egyptian reports

Omar Bakl Lotfy is an Egyptian lawyer and lawyer. He is known as the father of cooperation in Egypt. He is the owner of the idea of ​​establishing the Egyptian National Club. He worked as a lawyer and started with the government cases. He then worked in the law office of Saad Zaghloul. , And ended his life in his own law firm where he continued to practice his profession until he passed away.

Omar Lotfy Bey

The origin of Omar Lotfy to Morocco, his family came to Egypt under the reign of Mohamed Ali Pasha, born in Alexandria in 1867, and received his first education in the school of the charity and the preservation of the Koran, and soon moved to Cairo, to live in Bulaq and study in a school "Freer", and in 1886 graduated from the School of Law, and began to follow the path of law that he worked until he died.

Lutfi's cooperative activity began when he called for the establishment of agricultural unions to help the farmers instead of the moneylenders, who were educated as their own. When he found a rejection from the government, he resorted to the establishment of agricultural syndicates, which later evolved into cooperative societies, which appeared in Cairo and moved to Alexandria and Mansoura Menya and other cities. This was enough for the farmers to call it "the father of cooperation in Egypt". Lotfi was also the founder of the first trade union in Egypt, the trade union of handicrafts workers.

Omar Lotfy

Lutfi, who headed the high school club after its establishment in 1905, was not far from the national struggle and anti-colonialism. His friendship with Mustapha Kamel was a good example of this, and that struggle was the first seed towards the idea of ​​establishing the Ahli Club. The freedom of Egypt from colonialism, unite them and unite his word instead of dispersing after their graduation and return to each of his village does not link them anything.

The knowledge of Lotfi in the judiciary and the economy helped to write several books in the judiciary such as criminal advocacy in Islamic law, inviolability of housing, women's rights, defense rights, foreign privileges, and briefs in explaining the penal law and cooperation companies in Egypt. The most important figures in the history of Egypt, even selected by the magazine "Monday and the lowest" among the greatest 10 men in the history of Egypt in five decades.

On November 14, 1911, Omar Lutfi died in Cairo at the age of 44 years, and his death was a great influence in the hearts of poets, writers and lawyers who approved and ratified, and made the Prince of poets Ahmed Shawki inheriting verses of poetry said at the beginning: "Stand in the graves, Earth is the lunar center. "

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