|
| |
| | Gamal Abdel Nasser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Nasser's policies became associated with the ideology of Pan-Arabism, which promoted strong, aggressive government action on the part of the Arab states in order to confront the "imperialist" West, and urged that the resources of the Arab states should be used for the benefit of the Arab people and not the West. | | | Nasser's tendency towards dramatic manipulation of politics is highlighted by his handling of the October 26, 1954 attempt on his life. | | | Nasser convinced Jordan and Syria to join him in united Arab action against Israel and declared in a speech, "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel." However, Israel's offensive in the Six Day War routed the Arab states. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser
(1825 words)
|
|
| |
| | Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt |
| | In addition, Morocco and Tunisia were not prepared to accept the implications of Nasser's anti-Israel policies, and Iraq embarked on policies that were independent of the UAR, whose influence appeared increasingly confined to the ‘left fringe’ of Arab politics. | | | Nasser carried through many social reforms in Egypt, redistributing land, nationalizing the economy, and establishing in 1962 the sole political organization, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU). | | | Nasser's, and thus Egypt's, prestige soared within the Arab world. |
|
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Egypt
(7147 words)
|
|
| |
| | Egypt - Elite Ideology |
| | Nasserism was built on Egypt's opposition to "imperialist influence" in the Arab world and on a belief in the benefits of pan-Arab unity. | | | Finally, in the political sphere, Nasser had created a powerful authoritarian state; this concentration of power was legitimized by the charisma of the leader and the revolutionary mission of the country. | | | The moderate view was not convinced that laissez-faire was the cure to all of Egypt's ills; it insisted on a continuing role for state regulation and progressive taxation to curb the inegalitarian tendencies of the market and the social conflict and political instability that these tendencies generated. |
|
http://countrystudies.us/egypt/110.htm
(983 words)
|
|
| |
| | Al-Ahram Weekly Special Supplement The future of Nasserism |
| | Nasserism is a movement founded around a charismatic leader who has come to lift society from the abyss. | | | THE REVIVAL OF NASSERISM: Nasserism was the product of the antagonism between traditional colonialism and national liberation movements, which supplied the dramatic confrontational backdrop for a "revolutionary situation." Today, we are supposedly living in a "globalised" world where, ostensibly, democratic mechanisms confer legitimacy upon change. | | | Nasser preferred action to reaction; he succeeded in asserting the political will to take decisions with global repercussions. |
|
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/501/nasser31.htm
(2497 words)
|
|
| |
| | Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East, by Salim Yaqub. Introduction. |
| | Nasser did not achieve his aims by dispatching the Egyptian armed forces, but appealed directly to the inhabitants of these states by promising a new dawn in Arab history."[4] In fact, the Eisenhower Doctrine's security arrangements were not intended to "regulate the movement of ideas" or even, primarily, to deter overt Egyptian aggression. | | | Because of these circumstances—the political weakness of the United States, the political strength of Nasserism, and the independent proclivities of the conservative Arab regimes—the Eisenhower administration was unable to achieve Nasser's regional isolation. | | | True, the doctrine reflected the view that Nasserism was incapable of true neutrality in the Cold War, suggesting, perhaps, a dismissive attitude toward Arab capabilities. |
|
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/yaqub_containing.html
(6674 words)
|
|
| |
| | Disinformation |
| | With the collapse of Nasserism, the overtly secular socialist-cum-fascist age in the Middle East closed--except in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. | | | Israel's pulverizing defeat of the Arab armies dethroned Nasserism, the romantic pan-Arab dictatorial nationalism that had infected much of the Arab world, particularly its intelligentsia, during the 1950s and '60s. | | | Let us make an analytical bet of high probability and enormous returns: The January 30 elections in Iraq will easily be the most consequential event in modern Arab history since Israel's six-day defeat of Gamal Abdel Nasser's alliance in 1967. |
|
http://www.disinfo.com/site/printarticle9184.html
(169 words)
|
|
| |
| | Prof. Gerald Steinberg |
| | The Egyptian intellectual and political elite's continuing rejection of contacts with Israelis, and their contribution to hostile and often absurd propaganda, is a throwback to the Nasserist period. | | | Instead of antagonizing the West and goading Israel, Mahfouz argues that if Nasser had opened Egypt to economic development and democracy, Egypt might now be the leader of the Arab world and the Middle East. | | | According to Mahfouz, Nasser was a dictator who led Egypt to social and economic disaster. |
|
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/oped/o040998.htm
(718 words)
|
|
| |
| | Al-Ahram Weekly Nasserist Party Nasserism, 90s style |
| | In 1990, Diaeddin Dawoud, a cabinet minister and a high ASU official under Nasser, was mandated by the would-be founders of the Nassserist Arab Socialist Party to file a fresh application under a new name - the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party. | | | Farid Abdel-Karim, a former high official of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, spearheaded another battle, for the establishment of a 'Nasserist Arab Sociality Party'. | | | Although Nasser outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood and sent thousands of its members to jail, some Nasserists, including Abdel-Karim, now advocate closer ties with the Islamists. |
|
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/archives/parties/nasser/nass90.htm
(943 words)
|
|
| |
| | Arabic Media Internet Network |
| | Nasserism was a political movement that took place at a particular time. | | | These wars were waged against him not because he occupied another country, not because he was suspected of sending suicide bombers to New York, but because he was the leader of a project the dual goals of which were modernization and unification. | | | On the 50th anniversary the July Revolution we are caught between our great awe for Abdel- Nasser, who inspired all those conspiracies against him so as to undermine his project, and our dismay at him for having been inextricably lured into a premature battle. |
|
http://www.amin.org/eng/azmi_bishara/2002/aug01.html
(2132 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Head Heeb: Nasser resurgent? Nasser Arabyee analyzes |
| | Nasser Arabyee analyzes the upcoming Yemeni elections and reveals, among other interesting facts, that there is a Nasserist party in Yemen. | | | Nasserist parties do have a history in Iraq - Qasim flirted with Nasserism during the early part of his dictatorship, and Nasserists ruled the country from 1963 to 1968. | | | The Egyptian Nasserists have prepared for this eventuality by establishing a general secretariat for the Arab world in 2000; if a Nasserist movement develops in Iraq, it will be able to count on moral and political support from its better-established Egyptian counterpart. |
|
http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/014725.html
(371 words)
|
|
| |
| | Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 5 |
| | He criticized Nasser for banning all political parties, particularly the Wafd party[1], and curtailing democracy. | | | The success of Nasser's Revolution, its success in fighting imperialism and Israel and rallying the Arab world in the pan-Arab movement is modern Egypt's political mythology. | | | For 20 years, Abd Al- Nasser has been the prophet of a united Arab world anchored to that mythology. |
|
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA0598
(1665 words)
|
|
| |
| | ARAB WORLD From reformisme to independence |
| | Before this came to pass, however, the liberal nationalism of Sa'd Zaghlul's Wafd, which represented the more prosperous strata of urban society and which restricted its activities chiefly to electoral and parliamentary politics, was itself imitated in other Arab countries which were fighting for their independence. | | | Although independent Syria had experienced military coups before Egypt (beginning with the putsch of General Husni Al-Za'im in 1949), the latter's republican coup d'Etat and the later social, economic and political options of Nasserism set a model that was to be imitated in several Arab countries, notably Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Libya and Sudan. | | | Making its mark through the struggle against Western domination, and later against Zionism, as well as by condemning social injustice and the monarchy, the Muslim Brotherhood filled the vaccuum left by the Egyptian left's weakness on the social front and by the liberal nationalists' faintheartedness on the national front. |
|
http://www.imarabe.org/ang/perm/mondearabe/theme/docs/9.html
(2728 words)
|
|
| |
| | Saudi-American Forum - US/ Saudi Political Relationship - Saudi Arabia Relations Information |
| | While Nasser's anti-imperialist rhetoric appealed to many Saudis and had resonance with members of the royal family, in time both the Saudis and Americans concluded that Nasser was attempting to create a pan-Arab nation in his own making. | | | Militarily, Nasser and the Arab armies were routed by Israel. | | | The formation of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria, on one hand, and the Iraqi revolution, and the failure of the American-initiated Omega and Alpha Plans, tilted the region toward Nasser and to the left of the political spectrum. |
|
http://www.saudi-american-forum.org/Newsletters/SAF_Essay_04.htm
(1727 words)
|
|
| |
| | Egypt: A Short History |
| | With a prior reputation for obsequiousness ("Nasser’s poodle" to some uncharitable critics), and unaffiliated with the clusters of apparatchiks based in the security services and the Arab Socialist Union which had emerged in the 1960s, Sadat was widely assumed to be a transitional figure. | | | The primary fiefdom of the later Nasser years, the Arab Socialist Union, was subjected to public criticism, gradually stripped of real power, and in 1980 officially shut down when an amendment to the Constitution declared its abolition. | | | This is the local context in which to appreciate the apathy and indifference with which the bulk of Egyptians responded to his assassination in October 1981. |
|
http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/texts/egypt-a-short-history-ch8.htm
(11583 words)
|
|
| |
| | Middle East Online |
| | Nasser was declared a mad man bent on wanting to throw the Jews in the sea. | | | Irrespective of their level of rationality, the Arab demons were declared a threat either to their own people, to their neighbors, to regional; stability, to America’s standard of living or even to US national security, if not to the heart of American cities. | | | They were ordered out of Egypt by the new superpower, not out of love for Nasserism, or out of respect for Arab aspirations for independence, but as an assertion of America’s imperial role. |
|
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english?id=2969
(2542 words)
|
|
| |
| | University Press of Florida: Rethinking Nasserism |
| | Nasser dominated and defined the politics of an entire generation of Egyptians and successfully spoke to the masses of Arabs in other countries, even going over the heads of their own leaders--something that no other Arab leader since has been able to accomplish since on any considerable scale. | | | The innovative theme of the collection is Nasserism as a form of populism, described by the editors in their introduction as a combination of various tenets of anti-imperialism, pan-Arabism (or nationalism), and Arab socialism. | | | President Gamal 'Abd Nasser was a beloved figure of the Egyptian people and loomed large over the Arab world during his period of influence (1952-1970). |
|
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=PODEHF03
(446 words)
|
|
| |
| | Róbinson Rojas.- Samir Amin (1990): Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a global failure.- RRojas Databank: Analysis and ... |
| | This war marked the end of Nasserism, that is, a turning back of the Arab unitary current and a shift 'to the right' at internal level. | | | The rise of the Ba'ath in Syria and Iraq and the Algerian war (1954-62) were concomitant. | | | In varying degrees the new national authorities established bourgeois hegemonic alliances, crystallizing around a bourgeoisie of the industrial state, peasant (kulak) allies and petit bourgeoisie, sometimes with a popular element and, conversely, sometimes drawn from the former dominant classes (large landowners and traditional chieftains). |
|
http://rrojasdatabank.info/uu32me0f.htm
(4934 words)
|
|
| |
| | [No title] |
| | Nasser was never a whole-hearted supporter of the USSR, as evidenced by his treatment of Egyptian communists. | | | Nasserism was only able to consolidate itself because the Egyptian Workers Party, the Communist Party, was itself under the influence of the now Soviet-revisionist leaders. | | | This dominant national bourgeoisie was Egyptian and it was led by Nasser. |
|
http://harikumar.brinkster.net/AllianceIssues/SYRIAALLIANCE51.html
(11341 words)
|
|
| |
| | Joseph Shattan on Mideast & war on National Review Online |
| | Thus, if the Arabs set aside their political differences and united in a single state under a modernizing dictator, such as Egypt's Nasser, they would once again become a force to be reckoned with. | | | Nasserists believed that the Arab predicament was the result of political disunity and technological backwardness. | | | How can it be, they ask themselves, that the Arabs, despite the self-evident superiority of their religion and culture, have been overtaken and humiliated by the once-barbarous Christians and — even more embarrassingly — by the despised and dispersed Jews? |
|
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-shattan101501.shtml
(727 words)
|
|
| |
| | President Nasser and his politics in Egypt |
| | The Islam and its doctrines return to be the vector of the revolutionary action and national reconstruction; purified from the superstructures and from the deviations that it had brought for centuries it become, in the Nasser's thought, the pragmatic way toward the realization of the democracy and the national resumption. | | | In the spring 1962 it met in Cairo the National Congress of the Popular Strengths, to which Nasser submitted a Project of Chart of National Action, a programmatic and doctrinal document, in which reached maturation the whole experience accumulated until that moment. | | | The large Arabic front of the second postwar period that had got independence from the colonizers French and English with the strength, and that had also put in danger for several times the existence of Israel, it didn't exist anymore. |
|
http://www.geocities.com/iturks/html/modern_history_3.html
(1948 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Sinai Campaign |
| | As a leader, Nasser espoused what has become known as "Nasserism," the major goal of which was to unify all Arabs into a single state. | | | When the three countries eventually did so, Nasser was honored by Arabs as a leader who had saved the Arab world. | | | In response, Nasser nationalized the strategically important Suez Canal, which had been under British control since 1937. |
|
http://www.stateofisrael.com/arab-israel/sinai
(181 words)
|
|
| |
| | Egypt still trying to shake off grip of former leader csmonitor.com |
| | The uprising catapulted a young general, Gamal Abdel Nasser, into his new role as "liberator" of the Arabs. | | | A United Nations report released last month pegged the Arab region of 22 countries on the lowest rung in the world when it comes to democracy, civil liberties, and media independence. | | | CAIRO - Fifty years ago Tuesday, a clique of Egyptian Army officers overthrew their country's British-backed monarchy in a bloodless coup and sent the disgraced king sailing for Italy. |
|
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0723/p10s01-wome.htm
(738 words)
|
|
| |
| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Hero in Search of a Triumph GAMAL ABDEL NASSER -- Apr. 07, 1961 |
| | While Nasser was busy plotting in the Arab world, its old enemy Israel got off to a better start in African trade and aid, even with African Moslem nations. | | | In the Arab world, where trust comes hard anyway, Nasser's street mobs and secret agents have so riled the Arab leaders that nearly all mistrust him. | | | But if they succeed, Nasser might well find himself looking in from the outside on an Arab, French-oriented "Maghreb" made up of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco. |
|
http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,874310,00.html
(1014 words)
|
|
| |
| | Rant Wraith: Frontline's 'House of Saud' - 1964 to 1979 |
| | The Suez Crisis of 1956 rised Nasser's prestige among Arabs outside of Egypt. | | | The Egyptians cracked down on domestic dissent, especially on the Muslim Brotherhood, seen as a religiously-inspired threat to Nasserism and indeed to Nasser personally. | | | Meanwhile, secular Ba'athist had taken control of Iraq and Syria. |
|
http://rantwraith.blogspot.com/2005/02/frontlines-house-of-saud-1964-to-1979.html
(1113 words)
|
|
| |
| | David Bukay: Israeli Fundamentalism and the Arab Political Culture |
| | The third factor is the collapse of the secular Arab ideologies, not only socialism and communism but also nationalism, Nasserism, and Arab unity, together with the Arab inability to solve the “question of Palestine”. |
|
http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/03-issue/bukay-3.htm
(5086 words)
|
|
| |
| | Vodkapundit - Realpokerpolitic |
| | Egypt gave us Nasserism; Iraq is the strongest example of Ba’athist ideology. | | | The Arab Ba’ath party (literally, “Arab Renaissance”) was pretty much just Nasserism without Nasser. | | | Saddam Hussein is merely the most recent Ba’athist strongman to rule Iraq. |
|
http://www.vodkapundit.com/archives/002448.php
(1662 words)
|
|
| |
| | A Failure of Intelligence |
| | It has been in existence in one form or another for a few decades, but it became a political force only after the death, in 1970, of Gamal Abdel Nasser, which also marked the demise of Nasserism, the most recent phase of Arab nationalism. | | | Similar figures can be found in the history of other religions, but Qutb also advocated violence—not only against Christians and Jews (something that would not have caused him any trouble in Nasser's Egypt) but also against fellow Muslims who did not accept his version of Islam. | | | It has appeared under various headings, including fundamentalism, radical Islam, political Islam, and integrisme (in France). |
|
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/laqueur.htm
(2413 words)
|
|
| |
| | ISRAEL AND THE MAGHREB AT THE HEIGHT OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: 1950s — 1970s |
| | First, it was conveyed to the Tunisians that the Israelis appreciated Bourguiba’s challenge to Nasserism, even if they opposed the pre-1949 UN resolutions on which he based his peace proposal. | | | The MNA did not support Nasser’s Arab unity, opposed the Syrian-Egyptian union in 1958, and generally distanced itself from Cairo. | | | The collapse of the United Arab Republic in 1961, Egyptian efforts in 1963 to resuscitate Arab unity, Nasser’s military involvement in Yemen, and the emergence of Arab summitry as a channel for inter-Arab dialogues, motivated Bourguiba to promote state particularism over pan-Arabism. |
|
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2000/issue2/jv4n2a7.html
(6854 words)
|
|
| |
| | Al-Ahram Weekly Elections Nasserism's potential -- untapped |
| | Mohamed Aql and Abdallah Shoheib, the new party's founders, are supporters of Farid Abdel-Karim, a former high official of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, who was Dawoud's rival for leadership of the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party in 1992. | | | It is based on a number of interviews with Salah Nasr, head of the intelligence service under Nasser, in which Nasr blamed Nasser, Fawzi and Sharaf for the June 1967 defeat. | | | They claimed the book, The Intelligence, the Revolution and the Setback, tarnished the image of Nasser and his men. |
|
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/503/el5.htm
(1305 words)
|
|
| |
| | SABRY HAFEZ - THE NOVEL, POLITICS AND ISLAM |
| | Nasser’s version of Arab nationalism and state-led industrialization was unceremoniously ditched in favour of an open door to Western capital and a brazenly pro-American foreign policy, in exchange for lavish US and Saudi subsidies. | | | As an idealistic youth in Iraq, Mihyar’s faith in Nasserism was shattered by the Arab defeat of 1967. | | | For, Haykal averred, everyone involved mistook an issue that concerned the use of public funds, to subsidize the reprint of a book that had never been censored in Egypt, for one of freedom of expression. |
|
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR23908.shtml
(8439 words)
|
|
| |
| | The prophet and the proletariat |
| | An attempt to revive the movement in the mid-1960s led to still more executions, but then, after Nasser's death, his successors Sadat and Mubarak allowed it to lead a semi-legal existence--provided it avoided any head on confrontation with the regime. | | | And in Egypt the Communists continued to proclaim Nasser as a socialist, even after he had thrown them into prison. | | | A quarter of a century before this the Egyptian Communists briefly took the same position towards the Muslim Brotherhood, calling on them to join in 'a common struggle against the "fascist dictatorship" of Nasser and his "Anglo-American props"'. |
|
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj64/harman.htm
(20588 words)
|
|
| |
| | Back to Iraq 3.0: Background on Lebanon |
| | A historical note would have mentioned Nasser (and what role the US had in helping him, and why that is not viewed with the same scorn), Pan-Arabism (and how Nasser was himself interfering in the affairs of other neighboring states, encouraging coups against pro-Western leaders, and bombing Yemen), the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Cold War. | | | Nasser wanted to topple the leaders of Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. | | | Left out is any reference to Nasserism, Pan-Arabism, and any sense of regional politics and complexities. |
|
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000861.php
(7743 words)
|
|
| |
| | Saudi-American Forum - Saudi Arabian - American Relations - Saudi Arabia Relations Information |
| | Earliest among those threats was the rise of radical pan-Arab nationalism in the Arab world, most closely identified with Nasser in Egypt and the extremism it produced. | | | It was Saudi Arabia that came up on the side of the United States in that polarize, fragmented and radical Arab world that we saw back in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. | | | In Iran in the late 1970s yet another variant of radicalism emerged witht he rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and that was the next threat Saudi Arabia sided with the United States against. |
|
http://www.saudi-american-forum.org/Library/SAF_Library_02.htm
(4260 words)
|
|
| |
| | The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection |
| | After Nasser's death in 1970, his successor, Anwar al-Sadat, attempted to co-opt both traditional Islam and political Islam as counters to the political left. | | | The new socialist and nationalist military regime suppressed the Brotherhood in 1954, claiming it had plotted to assassinate Nasser. | | | Nasser's secular agenda, his socialism, and his spectacular defeat in the 1967 war generated opposition to his regime and disillusionment with secularism in general. |
|
http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/october_2005/10_05_3.html
(4949 words)
|
|
| |
| | The children of Stalinism |
| | As Nazih Ayubi has observed of Egyptian Islamism in the 1960s and 1970s, the movement did not mark a break from Nasserism but was 'a mirror image of the Nasserist project, revolving similarly around the state and regarding the act of government as the main approach to changing society'. | | | The whole logic and symbolism of the nation-state, which had been developed as the only authentic language, was undercut and revealed as without substance in exactly those dimensions where it had claimed to be most powerful. | | | Even this abrupt change was double edged: it was part of the swing into uncritical support for nationalist regimes that allowed Arab Communist leaders to declare, bizarrely, that nationalist dictators such as Nasser represented 'the [Communist] party in power'. |
|
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj68/marshall.htm
(5367 words)
|
|
| |
| | baathism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | This was because Nasserism and Baathism overlooked the deep historical roots of the Arab worlds diversity... | | | ...region, however, it had several versions, mainly Nasserism and Baathism, which actually expressed national identifies and ambitions...Israels expansionist policy. | | | ...Egyptian, Syrian and Israeli governments each have long traditions of paternalistic etatisme, rooted respectively in Nasserism, Baathism and Labor Zionism. |
|
http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=baathism
(1267 words)
|
|
| |
| | MERIA News Volume 6, Issue 2 |
| | Gamal Abdel Nasser led the coup founding the Egyptian republic in 1952. | | | A shifting relationship describes how the late novelist and magazine proprietor, Ihsan Abdel-Qudous, saw his ties with Nasser change, before and after the coup. | | | History was there - Al-Ahram columnist Mohamed Sid-Ahmed recalls sitting in a cell as a young Communist, and hearing news of the coup. |
|
http://meria.idc.ac.il/research-g/egypt.html
(5289 words)
|
|
| |
| | BACKGROUND IN 20TH CENTURY EGYPTIAN HISTORY SINCE 1952 REVOLUTION, Jana Evans Braziel |
| | Veiling (which had declined during Nasserism and egalitarian, socialist reform) began to increase in the 1980s; however, most scholars note that this "veiling" is a protest to westernization and capitalist imperialism. | | | On the one hand, Sadat encouraged the visibility of fundamentalist Islamist groups, who were critical of the socialist government of Nasser; on the other hand, this increased visibility eventually led to attacks on Sadat as well. | | | In the final years of Nasserism, Egypt witness the decline of socialist policies and the weakening of the marxist or socialist democratic state. |
|
http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/EGYPT.html
(1018 words)
|
|
| |
| | A Sufi response to political islamism: Al-ahbash of Lebanon |
| | With the rise of the Brotherhood's militant offshoots, and its growing criticism of Sadat's policies of rapprochement with the West and Israel, the government sought to strengthen the Sufi movement, which by this time was presenting itself as an Islamically legitimate but politically quietist, tolerant, and spiritually vibrant alternative to political Islamism. | | | The resurgence of Islamism after the 1967 war and its subsequent use by President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt as an antidote to Nasserism brought the Muslim Brotherhood into prominence as a prelude to its emergence as a part of mainstream Islam. | | | For example, he takes issue with Shaykh Ibn Baz of Saudi Arabia for denouncing the late Gamal Abdel Nasser as a kafir. |
|
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/pspa/al-ahbash.html
(5889 words)
|
|
| |
| | Naharnet Newsdesk - Ghassan Tueni Conducts an Anatomy of Nasserism |
| | "This tragic example is manifested by the chain of coup d'Etats that led the latest coup leader to plead with Nasser for an Egyptian-Syrian merger even though the Cairo regime was not prepared for such a drastic move," Tueni recalled. | | | Tueni argued that the Nasserite revolution had largely set the stage for militarized regimes in many Arab countries, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. | | | They rejected his resignation, which was said at the time that the resignation was stage-managed so that the secret service would infiltrate the masses to agitate for keeping Nasser in power," Tueni wrote. |
|
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/story/A4A3B8FC24831F6942256BFE00335C88?OpenDocument&PRINT
(355 words)
|
|
| |
| | Foreign Affairs - The Palestinian Quest - Eric Rouleau |
| | It was clear that the PLO was destined to become Nasser's docile instrument, because its president, Ahmed Shukeiry, an old hand at politics and an opportunist, put himself at the disposal of the leader of the Egyptian revolution after having long been in the service of Ibn Saud, the ultra-conservative king of Saudi Arabia. | | | This congress of notables had been convoked at the instigation of the Arab League, with the obvious goal of channeling the energies of the Palestinians away from the uncontrolled activists. | | | Yasir Arafat and his friends avoided a head-on collision with Nasserism in order not to be called "separatists" or "regionalists," which were the supreme insults at the time. |
|
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19750101faessay10133-p30/eric-rouleau/the-palestinian-quest.html
(1156 words)
|
|
| |
| | BBC NEWS Middle East Nasser's mixed legacy |
| | But to his critics, Nasser led the Arabs down a cul-de-sac. | | | Throughout the 1950s and 1960s and until his death in 1970, he dominated Arab politics and the popular imagination of the Arab masses. | | | Today, when many Arabs feel humiliated by Israel and the American superpower, there is a certain nostalgia for Nasserism. |
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2146124.stm
(430 words)
|
|
| |
| | Dissertations Abstracts/Middle East & Islam |
| | The effort to contain Nasserism did not succeed, however, because the Eisenhower administration overestimated its own political strength in the Arab world while underestimating that of Nasserism. | | | It was politically dangerous for Arab regimes to side with the West or to oppose Nasser, and nations taking either stand were invariably weakened. | | | By offering economic aid, military aid, and more explicit guarantees of American protection, the Eisenhower administration hoped to convince a majority of Arab governments to side openly with the West in the Cold War, thus isolating Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his regional supporters. |
|
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/diss.htm
(11152 words)
|
|
| |
| | Aden’s Last Hours |
| | Nasser joined with Syria and Yemen to form the United Arab Republic and the Imam of Yemen claimed that Aden belonged the Yemen. | | | Nasser backed a campaign to turn Arabs in the Protectorates to turn against their Sheiks. | | | After this military abortion we were seen to climb down because of outside political pressures. |
|
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Aden/AdenLastHours1.html
(5546 words)
|
|
| |
| | AllRefer.com - Iraq - The Emergence Of Saddam Husayn, 1968-79 Iraqi Information Resource |
| | In 1963 Nasser had been able to manipulate domestic Iraqi politics; by 1968 his ideological pull had waned, enabling the Iraqi Baath to focus on pressing domestic issues. | | | The party also was aided by a 1967 reorganization that created a militia and an intelligence apparatus and set up local branches that gave the Baath broader support. | | | The demise of Nasserism following the June 1967 War and the emergence of a more parochially oriented Baath in Syria freed the Iraqi Baath from the debilitating aspects of pan-Arabism. |
|
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/iraq/iraq19.html
(2701 words)
|
|
| |
| | Commentary Magazine - Politics Among the Arabs |
| | ...Colonel Nasser has already demonstrated conclusively that he is no Kemal... | | | ...They are, he points out, yielding increasingly to right-wing and left-wing movements united by a common distaste for liberalism: Communists, Socialists, Moslem Brethren, and-strongest of all at the moment-supporters of what he rather infelicitously describes as "Nasserism," i.e... | | | ...To counter "Nasserism," let alone Communism, it would have to do what by its nature it is incapable of doing: promote the "development" of the country not in cooperation with, but at the expense of, the propertied classes-even if this should be socially wasteful and economically irrelevant... |
|
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V22I2P32-1.htm
(3063 words)
|
|
| |
| | bitterlemons-international.org - Middle East Roundtable |
| | In 1972, I published a book entitled "Reflections on Nasserism," in which I told of a report that had been published in Pravda, and broadcast on Radio Moscow. | | | My book was received very negatively by Arab communists. | | | The report was meant to glorify Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose devils beat us harshly that very night. |
|
http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/previous.php?opt=1&id=11
(3928 words)
|
|
| |
| | Permanent Settlement of Palestinians in Lebanon: A Recipe for Conflict |
| | Lebanon's pro-Nasser policy in Arab politics under President Chehab, and the cordial relations between the two men, helped prevent destabilizing Arab interventions in internal Lebanese politics, particularly by Syria (see Abu Jawdeh 1993: 13-141). | | | In the mid-1950s, Lebanon, like other Arab countries, had its own response to Nasserism-an internal crisis which lasted six months and was only brought to an end following the election of a new president (Qubain 1961; Gerges 1993; Salibi 1958). | | | The first event that altered the course of Arab politics and Arab-Western relations after the war of 1948 was the coming of Nasser to power in 1952. |
|
http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/pspa/khazen.html
(8473 words)
|
|
| |
| | Why Does America Hate Us? - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | The reason for fundamentalism’s coming demise is what secular Arabs have been saying for years: Radical Islam has no social program for Arab or Muslim societies. | | | It may be that a few years from now, when we look back at the September 11 attack on the United States, we will view it as the beginning of the end of Islamic radical fundamentalism, just as the 1967 Arab-Israeli war heralded the end of Nasserism and Arab nationalism. |
|
http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=4840
(1356 words)
|
|
|
