Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever his sympathies, Saud cannot afford to ignore Nasser's appeal to his impoverished subjects. Every Saudi Arabian village has radios tuned to Cairo's broadcasts. Egyptian technicians and teachers have deeply infiltrated the kingdom. For all his oil riches, Saud's financial position is so bad that world banks ceased several months ago to honor Saudi letters of credit. Educated Saudis almost to a man are disgusted. Said one: "The King is burning up our wealth, wasting, wasting everywhere-palaces, women, bribes. He is destroying our country. It is a crime that cannot...
Tiny, bustling Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) is the most stable of all Arab countries, with sturdier traditions of literacy, representative government, religious tolerance and international trade than any of its neighbors. But the announcement of the Syrian-Egyptian union and President Nasser's dramatic visit to Damascus-only a two-hour drive from Beirut-has had an explosive effect among the half of Lebanon's population who are Moslems. A delegation headed by ex-Premier Abdullah el Yafi, leader of the opposition, rushed to Damascus to call on Nasser and extend its congratulations. An estimated...
...issues were many and complex, but to the outside world, one towered over all: whether staunchly pro-Western Prime Minister Abdullah Khalil, head of the Umma (Nation) Party, would remain in power or be replaced by pro-Egyptian ex-Premier Ismail el Azhari, head of the National Unionist Party...
...accompaniment of a constant stream of anti-Western vituperation from Cairo, as well as the jingle of Egyptian money, El Azhari put on a vigorous, glad-handing campaign. He played upon the anti-religious sentiment of the younger generation by hammering away disdainfully at Premier Khalil's personal devotion to the Moslem cult of aging Abdel Rahman el Mahdi. He lashed out at the Baghdad Pact, accused the Premier of being pro-American, pro-British, and pro-imperialist. While carefully ignoring Nasser's blatant maneuvers to take over the Sudan and his newly asserted claim on more than...
...opening-night audience stared pop-eyed at some choice Saturnalia and orgies, at an Egyptian belly dance and a Greek striptease, at gladiatorial combat in the arena. In his experimental dance technology, Moiseyev brilliantly scrapped most of the cliché-laden movements and figures of Russian classical ballet, while retaining classical techniques of body control. Moreover, Moiseyev did away with the traditional counterpoint between soloist and corps de ballet, made mass dancing the ballet's main feature ("My hero," says Moiseyev, "is the masses...