Beit El-Umma

This house museum preserves the residence of Saad Zaghloul, the nationalist leader who galvanized the movement for Egyptian independence in the early twentieth century. Known as the House of the Nation, it was a center of political activity, and its rooms retain the furnishings, documents and personal effects of the statesman and his wife. Set in a garden in central Cairo, the building illustrates the domestic style of the period's elite. As a shrine of the independence struggle, it is significant to the country's modern political heritage.