... the “blessed movement.” They eventually declared their movement a revolution in early 1953; it was described by Anwar al-Sadat two years later as a “pragmatic march toward democracy.” This conclusion discusses the legacy of Nasser and Nasserism in Egyptian politics. Al Banna Hasan Caffery Jefferson Command...

... an economic boom. At the same time, Israel’s victory put the last nail in the coffin of Nasserism and created space for political Islam as a new basis of Egyptian (and broader Arab) identity. Fury over Israel’s annexations further strengthened Arab states’ resolve to leverage oil against Western governments...

...Egypt achieved nominal independence from Britain in 1922, and full independence in 1936 with the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, yet its postcoloniality presumably began in 1952 when a revolution led by Gamal Abdel Nasser broke out. This chapter argues that Egyptian history from the 1930s...

... President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s influence over pan-Arab national groups in the kingdom. By the end of the 1950s and early 1960s, domestic security concerns grew to a new high as the U.S. military’s presence exacerbated attacks on the legitimacy of a monarchy under mounting domestic pressure. Opposition...

...This chapter revisits the political phenomenon of “Nasserism,” acknowledging that it has multiple connotations and yet enduring significance across the Arab world. It discusses Nasserism under Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) during his 1952–70 leadership and Nasserism...

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...The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952–1971. Wm. Roger Louis, Oxford University Press. © Wm. Roger Louis 2025. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198201977.003.0018 In mid-May 1967, Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded the withdrawal of the UN Emergency Force from Egyptian territory...

... in archives brings into question the curation of cultural memory, autonomy of knowledge and the unlearning of colonial legacies. censorship Egypt Egyptian photography visuals and magazines journals and in Egypt Nasser Gamal Abdel Pan Arabism in Egypt press and media Behdad Ali Bibliotheca Alexandrina...

.... What 1952 really stands for is the victory—by means of a widely popular military coup—of an efendi project of a much older date. Nasserism represents the culmination and consummation of efendi culture. There was no Liberal Project: there was only an Efendi Project. And there were two political...