Youth policy in modern Egypt
The youth in Egypt is the main executor of any government policy that the state currently wants to implement. The fundamental principles of the July 1952 revolution in Egypt were based on the role of state bodies that became the “guardians ” of youth ideology, by their intervention they determined the goals of working with young people and alienated any opposition youth movements from politics. The government has developed a tendency to use youth to achieve the goals of the political system at each stage, such as President Nasser’s dependence on his “pioneering ” organization, as well as the support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist movements by President Sadat to counteract the movement of supporters of Nasser among students. After the assassination of Sadat, there were attempts to reunite the youth, but they did not continue in the Mubarak era. Among such attempts, the most important was the project «Horus», adopted by the High Council for Youth and Sports. Then, during the term of the highest authority of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, the Brotherhood organization actually united the youth of the Brotherhood and the Salafis to impose their regime on all Egyptian streets, from village to city, and legitimize their movement. At the same time, the Brothers managed to start the blockade of the “media city”, the High Constitutional Court and the Republican Palace, and create their own semi-regular army by analogy with the police, where unquestioning obedience was imposed, and deviation from ideology was followed by cruel punishment.