Young Egypt Party (1933)
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Young Egypt Party حزب مصر الفتاة | |
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| Chairperson | Ahmed Hussein |
| Founded | October 1933 (as organization) 1936 (as political party) |
| Dissolved | 1953 |
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| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Newspaper | Al-Sha'ab |
| Paramilitary wing | Green Shirts |
| Ideology | Egyptian nationalism Egyptian Fascism Agrarianism Anti-colonialism Anti-capitalism Anti-Masonry Anti-semitism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Green |
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The Young Egypt Party (Arabic: حزب مصر الفتاة, Misr El-Fatah) also known as the Green Shirts was an Egyptian nationalist political party. It is notable for counting a young Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat as members.
History[]
The party was formed 12 October 1933 as a "radical nationalist" party with "religious elements" by its leader . Its aim was to make Egypt an "empire"—the empire consisting of Egypt and Sudan—that would ally with other Arab countries and "serve as the leader of Islam". It was also a militaristic organization whose young members were organized in a paramilitary movement called the . Founded around the same time as many other fascist organisations, it openly admired the achievements of Nazi Germany, the enemy of Egypt's occupier, the British Empire. As German power grew, its anti-British tone increased.[1]
During its heyday in the 1930s Young Egypt's[2] "Green Shirts" had some violent confrontations with the Wafd party's "". One member even tried to assassinate Mustafa el-Nahas Pasha in November 1937. Under government pressure, the Green Shirts were disbanded in 1938. The group was renamed the Nationalist Islamic Party in 1940, when it took on a more religious, as well as anti-British tone. After the war it was renamed yet again, now the Socialist Party of Egypt. The group's one electoral success came when it sent Ibrahim Shukri, its vice-president, to parliament in 1951. However it was disbanded, along with all other parties, in 1953 following the 1952 Coup d'état.
After parties were allowed again in Egypt, Ibrahim Shoukry formed a group, the Socialist Labor Party in 1978, which despite its name it took much of the populistic and nationalistic ideology of Young Egypt. Its organ was Al-Sha'ab (The People)[clarification needed].
References[]
- ^ THE ERA OF LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM AND PARTY POLITICS
- ^ Lewis, Bernard (1999). Semites and anti-Semites: an inquiry into conflict and prejudice. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-393-31839-5.
External links[]
- Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa Ed. Frank Tachau; Greenwood Press: Westport Connecticut, 1994
- Young Egypt green shirts & British impeire
- Misr Al-Fatah and free officers movement
- Al-Ahram weekly article Color of shirts in Egypt
- Alleged relation with Nazi Germany
- "Young Egypt" (Misr al-Fatah) movement members later presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat
- Young Egypt and terrorism
- Young Egypt and Wafd party
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- Banned political parties in Egypt
- Banned far-right parties
- Defunct political parties in Egypt
- Egyptian nationalist parties
- Fascist parties
- Fascism in the Arab world
- Political parties established in 1933
- Political parties disestablished in 1953
- 1933 establishments in Egypt
- 1953 disestablishments in Egypt