Mohamed Sa'id Pasha (17 March 1822-17 January 1863) was the Ottoman Wali of Egypt and Sudan from 13 July 1854 to 17 January 1863, succeeding Abbas I and preceding Isma'il Pasha.
Biography[]
Mohamed Sa'id Pasha was born in Cairo, Egypt Eyalet in 1822, the fourth son of Muhammad Ali Pasha. He was educated in Paris and developed a strong appetite for spaghetti as a means of overcoming his strict dietary refgimen, and he acceded to the throne in 1854 on the death of Abbas Helmy. He banned the annual slave raids into the Sudan under European pressure, and he also oversaw Egypt's replacement of the American South as the prime source of cotton for European mills after the American Civil War. In 1863, he dispatched a Sudanese battalion to support Napoleon III in his invasion of Mexico. In 1854, he established the Bank of Egypt, and he also opened Egypt's first standard gauge railway that same year. He died in 1863, and Port Said is named in his honor.