Heshmat Fahmi, member of the Pan-African Parliament and a member of the People's Assembly of Egypt
A private publisher named Essam Fahmi approached Eissa's coworker Adel Hammouda about starting a journalistic enterprise of some kind but was rebuffed.
On November 13, 1918, thereafter celebrated in Egypt as Yawm al Jihad (Day of Struggle), Zaghlul, Fahmi, and Sharawi were granted an audience with General Sir Reginald Wingate ('Wingate Pasha'), the British High Commissioner.