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| 1949 |
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| The government responded in kind and with equal alacrity. On Feb. 12, Brotherhood leader HASAN AL-BANNA himself was killed, most likely by members of the security forces. | 1 |
| Formation of the FREE OFFICERS' MOVEMENT, a revolutionary cell within the army composed of young officers hostile to and suspicious of the reigning political order. GAMAL ABDEL NASSER became chairman of the organization in Jan. 1950. One of its members, GEN. MUHAMMAD NAGUIB, was elected president of the army's Officers' Club in Dec. 1951. | 2 |
| Death of Khalil Mutran (b. 1872), who invented the narrative poem in Arabic. He was also associated with the romantic movement in Arabic literature, which flourished during the interwar period. | 3 |
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| 1950 |
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| Minister of Education TAHA HUSAYN declared education to be free at all levels. | 4 |
| Creation of Ayn Shams University in Cairo. The school specialized primarily in language training. | 5 |
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| Jan |
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| Last victory of the Wafd at the polls. Mustafa al-Nahhas again became prime minister and immediately resumed negotiations with the British over possible revisions to the Treaty of 1936. | 6 |
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