Sameh Naguib is an Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 sociologist at the American University in Cairo

American University in Cairo

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, a socialist activist and a leading member of the Trotskyist

Trotskyism

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 organization the Revolutionary Socialists. In 2006 he described Hezbollah's defeat of the Israeli Defense Force in the Lebanon War as "a very important victory for the anti-war movement worldwide", claiming it prevented or delayed US and Israel

Israel

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i plans to attack Iran

Iran

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 and Syria

Syria

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. Naguib has also criticized others on the far-left of not differentiating between Islam

Islam

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ic organizations such as al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

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 - whom he labels a network of "individual terrorists

Terrorism

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", Hamas

Hamas

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 and Hezbollah - "national liberation

National Liberation Movement

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 movements", and the Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood

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 - "reformist

Reformism

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 mass movements". In 2007, Naguib was a speaker at the fifth Cairo Anti-war Conference

Cairo Anti-war Conference

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, which he used as a platform to condemn former President

President of Egypt

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 Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak

Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak is a former Egyptian politician and military commander. He served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011....

and pointed to Egypt's striking workers as a way forward for the movement:

[T]he struggle against Mubarak’s regime is just in its beginning and not end as the regime hopes. Despite the constitutional coup, passed by force and forgery, the Egyptian state terrorism will not intimidate us. Their laws and dictatorial constitution will not deter us from fighting for freedom and justice.