Nahas Pasha

Nahas Pasha (Mustafa Nahas Pasha), 1876-1965, Egyptian statesman, leader (1927-52) of the Wafd party. He was premier five times between 1928 and 1952. During World War II the British forced (1942) King Farouk to appoint Nahas as head of a government favorable to the Allies. When he became premier for the last time (1951), he denounced the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of alliance, which he had signed as premier in 1936. Agitation against the British led to rioting in Cairo in Jan., 1952, and Nahas was dismissed by the king. After the king's abdication later in the year, Nahas supported the new Egyptian government, but he was subsequently forced to disband the Wafd. He and his wife were imprisoned in 1953. After their release in 1954 he retired into private life.

The Misr El-Fatah (Young Egypt) Party (Arabic: Hizb Misr El-Fatah) is a small Egyptian political party, with the membership of some 225 members.

Platform

The Party platform calls for:

• Establishing a parliamentary/presidential ruling system.
• Enhancing the Egyptian-Arab ties.
• Achieving integration with African countries.
• Adopting non-alignment policies.
• Establishing the so-called socialist, Islamic economic system and boosting the role of the private sector.

The Party & legislative elections The Party fielded seven candidates to run for the 2000 legislative elections.

History

The party was formed October 1933 by its leader Ahmed Husayn. During its hayday in the 1930s the fascist Young Egypt had a youth movement name the "Green Shirts" who had some violent confrontations with the Wafd parties "blue shirts" 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 groups one electoral success came when it sent Ibrahim Shukri, its vice-president to parliament in 1951. However the military government that came to power in the Revolution of 1952 disbanded it, and all other parties, in 1953.

Ibriham Shukri, formed a group, the Socialist Labor Party in 1978, despite its name it took much of the populistic and nationalistic ideology of Young Egypt. Its organ was Al-Sha'ab (The People).

Another Young Egypt group, this one keeping the original name, was founded in 1990. It is led by Abdallah Rushdi.

References

• 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
• Pro-Axis Young Egypt Party and Abdel Naser as a member
• "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
• Misr El-Fatah (Young Egypt) New Party