Domonok "Dok" Zadir
"Dok" dresses as a typical doctor in the 1930s. He wears a normal suit, with his magical brooch on his lapel. His medical bag has the usual tools of the trade - stethoscope, thermometer, tongue depressors, wand of CLW and a large spiked ball with 6ft chain at the bottom.
Dok was raised by other Ancients in the tradition of the Palacles of Hermes. He felt the calling to help during the Great War. Dok was attached to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force who fought in three continents alongside the Allies in WWI.
In November 1915, armed conflict arose in North Africa when the Grand Senussi in Lybia sided with the Ottoman Empire against the British and the Italians. The Ottomans persuaded him to attack Egypt—which was then occupied by the British—and proclaim Jihad in the west as the Ottomans conducted an offensive against the Suez Canal on the east. Even though Senussi achieved a number of victories at first, he was pushed back and defeated in March 1916 by the Western Frontier Force of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
In Sudan hostilities erupted between the Anglo-Egyptians and the Sultan of Darfur who was believed to have prepared an invasion of Egypt. Again, Egyptian forces allied with the British were able to defeat him.
Some 100,000 Egyptian warriors also took part in battles on the European front, fighting in four countries: Belgium, France, Italy and Greece. Many died in action and were buried in the Commonwealth War Cemetery. A number of them were awarded the Victoria Cross for “valour in the face of the enemy”.
After the war, Dok returned home to Egypt. He became a pivotal figure in the fight for Egyptian independence.
On November 13, 1918, two days after the Armistice, Wingate was visited by three Egyptian politicians, headed by Saʿd Zaghlūl and Domonok Zadir, who demanded autonomy for Egypt and announced his intention of leading a delegation (Arabic wafd) to state his case in England. The British government’s refusal to accept a delegation, followed by the arrest of Zaghlūl and Zadir, produced a widespread revolt in Egypt, and Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (later Lord Allenby), the victor over the Ottomans in Palestine, was sent out as special high commissioner. Allenby insisted on concessions to the nationalists, hoping to reach a settlement. Zaghlūl and Zadir were released and subsequently led the delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–20), where it was denied a hearing to plead for Egypt’s independence.
The Wafd, in the meanwhile, had become a countrywide organization that dominated Egyptian politics. The Milner Commission (1919–20), sent to report on the establishment of constitutional government under the protectorate, was boycotted, but Lord Alfred Milner, who headed the commission, later had private talks with Zaghlūl and Zadir in London.
Finally, hoping to outmaneuver Zaghlūl and Zadir and to build up a group of pro-British politicians in Egypt, Allenby pressed his government to promise independence without previously securing British interests by a treaty. The declaration of independence (February 28, 1922) ended the protectorate but, pending negotiations, reserved four matters to the British government’s discretion: the security of imperial communications, defense, the protection of foreign interests and of minorities, and the Sudan. On March 15 the sultan became King Fuʾād I (reigned 1922–36) of Egypt.
Dok Zadir now spends his time providing medical aid to the poor and refugees.