Popular Nasserist Organization

Popular Nasserist Organization
التنظيم الشعبي الناصري
AbbreviationPNO
LeaderOsama Saad
FounderMaarouf Saad
Founded1973
HeadquartersSidon
IdeologyNasserism
Arab socialism
Arab nationalism
Pan-Arabism
Anti-Zionism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionLeft-wing
Parliament of Lebanon
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The Popular Nasserist Organization – PNO (Arabic: التنظيم الشعبي الناصري, romanizedAl-Tanzim al-Sha'aby al-Nassery) is a Sidon-based Nasserist party originally formed in 1973 by Maarouf Saad, a Sunni Muslim pan-Arab politician and member of Parliament (MP) later killed by the Lebanese Army during a February 1975 dock strike held in that port city.[1]

  1. ^ Deeb, The Lebanese Civil War (1980), pp. 68-69.