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| Wafd [ waaft ] |
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early 20C Egyptian nationalist party: an Egyptian nationalist party that emerged after an Egyptian delegation was refused a hearing at the Versailles Treaty negotiations following World War I. Negotiations eventually led to limited Egyptian independence beginning in 1922.
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| [Early 20th century. < Arabic, "delegation," shortening of al-wafd al-misrî "the Egyptian delegation"] |
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