ABSTRACT
Academic fields dedicated to the Egyptian process of politization during the 1970s are still scarce, although in crescendo. The vast majority of anarchists in Egypt at the time can be divided into different generational groups. Marxists in the Arab world, as Faleh Jabar points out in the introduction to his book, Post-Marxism and the Middle East, responded to the fall of Marxism only after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The Egyptian left suffered the same havoc as the global left after the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the ‘New Left’. For that reason, the figure of Samih represents an entire political generation and reveals, on the one hand, the local experience of the Egyptian New Left and, on the other, the local experience of anarchism, deeply connected to the global events of the time.
