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Egypt and Syria, reacting to a number of political factors, including growing American influence in the region, merged, creating the United Arab Republic.

As a young man, he was outspoken politically, criticizing the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s government, which controlled Syria as part of the United Arab Republic.

There was a sense of solidarity; Egyptians and Syrians for a time had been compatriots in the short-lived United Arab Republic.

The Christian Orthodox Saade family were once industrialists and landowners there, but when, in 1958, Egypt and Syria briefly united to form the United Arab Republic, it led to a series of nationalisations.

It was replaced by the current flag in 1958, when Syria was briefly unified with Egypt in the United Arab Republic.