Interview with Shahenda Maklad

On 30 April 1966, Salah Hussein was shot dead in his village, Kamshish, located in Menoufiya Governorate in the heart of the Nile Delta. An educated son of the village, he engaged in leftist politics and in nationalist anti-colonial struggles pre-1952. he later switched the focus of his activity against a family of landlords that had long subjected the village to a rule of terror and oppression. He led a peasant struggle against the landlords and exposed their tricks in evading the agrarian reform law, and was finally assasinated. he was survived by his window Shahenda Maklad, who was barely 27 when he was killed.