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Mohamed Sa'id Pasha (Egyptian Arabic: محمد سعيد باشا, Turkish: Mehmed Said Paşa, March 17, 1822 – January 17, 1863) was the Wāli of Egypt and Sudan from 1854 until 1863, officially owing fealty to the Ottoman Sultan but in practice exercising virtual independence.
Saʿīd Pasha (born 1822, Cairo, Egypt—died Jan. 18, 1863, Alexandria) was an Ottoman viceroy of Egypt (1854–63) whose administrative policies fostered the development of individual landownership and reduced the influence of the sheikhs (village headmen).
Muhammad Sa’id Pasha. • He received his education in Paris. He adopted a western life approach and was fluent in both English and French. • His father sent him to join the fleet. He was promoted until he became the Admiral of the fleet. • On July 14, 1854, he became the ruler of Egypt.
Ṣa‘īdis and their dialect are the subject of numerous Egyptian stereotypes and ethnic jokes, mainly from the upper-class Egyptians who own businesses in Egypt's major cities and used to hire Upper Egyptian workers in construction fields.
Port Said ( Egyptian Arabic: بورسعيد, romanized: Bōrsaʿīd, pronounced [boɾsæˈʕiːd, poɾ-]) is a city that lies in northeast Egypt extending about 30 km (19 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, straddling the west bank of the northern mouth of the Suez Canal.
Mohamed Sa'id Pasha (Egyptian Arabic: محمد سعيد باشا, Turkish: Mehmed Said Paşa, March 17, 1822 – January 17, 1863) was the Wāli of Egypt and Sudan from 1854 until 1863, officially owing fealty to the Ottoman Sultan but in practice exercising virtual independence.
At the behest of Napoleon III in 1863, Sa'id dispatched part of a Sudanese battalion to help put down a rebellion against the Second Mexican Empire. Under Sa'id's rule the influence of sheikhs was curbed and many Bedouin reverted to nomadic raiding. In 1854 he established the Bank of Egypt.
