Diary #41

1967

Rashad, my father, sitting on the left, 1 April 1967.

By June 1967, my father was ascending the ranks of the Organization of Socialist Youth, the youth wing of the regime’s single ruling party, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU). ​

Mohamed Rashad, or simply Rashad, was the son of a Tanta railway worker. He grew up without electricity, a sewage system, and pro…