The UAR Socialist Youth Organization was a youth organization in Egypt.[1] It was set up as the youth wing of the Arab Socialist Union in 1965. It came under the leadership of Marxist sectors.[2] Mufid Shihab was the general secretary of the organization.[1]
Gamal Abdul Nasser clamped down on the organization (as well as other leftist sectors in the Arab Socialist Union) in 1968, halting much of its activities.[3] Many of its activists later left the organization, dissatisfied with Nasser's Arab socialism. These activists became the core of the radical student movement during the early 1970s.[2]
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