ABSTRACT
During the last twenty years, attempts were made to resurrect the party under a variety of names but without much success. Ahmad Husain was no longer involved in these initiatives, he dropped out of politics and died more or less forgotten in Cairo in the 1970s. The subsequent fate of some of these early militants is fascinating. Henri Curiel, whose family owned at the time a well-known Cairo department store, was expelled from Egypt, became a third-world activist in Paris, and was assassinated in a mysterious circumstance in Paris in 1978. The masses listened to the Sawt al Arab, the powerful radio station in Cairo preaching from Cairo; the hour of Qaradawi had not yet struck. Adel Husain writes somewhere that his friend Tariq al-Bishri, even as a young man and a leading public intellectual, did not realize at the time in which direction the wind was blowing.
