Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt and Britain set up a joint rule over the Sudan, drew the political boundary between Egypt and the Sudan along the 22nd parallel. But in 1902, in order to avoid splitting tribes in the Wadi Haifa and Halaib regions, the Egyptians agreed to pass to the Sudan administrative control of two areas which jut northward above the parallel (see map). In the past 56 years Egypt had never claimed them. Nasser followed up his first note with another announcing that he was sending election officials into the areas so that...
Hard-boiled Premier Khalil, who has fended off both Egyptian and Russian attempts to penetrate his new nation, tried in vain to telephone Nasser, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Cairo, and finally, after a Cabinet meeting lasting until 3 a.m., cabled an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council accusing Egypt of plotting "aggression" and of organizing a "huge infiltration of Egyptian troops" (disguised, according to Sudanese sources, as camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled...
...British and French, and threatened reprisal. But President Nasser's government has denied all knowledge of the new Voice of Free Africa and professed to be unacquainted with what it was saying. By last week Western officials had tracked down the station, and established that it definitely is Egyptian...
...bombproof underground shelter against possible renewal of the R.A.F. attacks that knocked out Cairo's Voice of the Arabs during the Suez campaign. Guarded by special police, the station is operated through the office of Nasser's righthand man, Ali Sabri, who is overall boss of Egyptian intelligence, and is manned by a pair of Egyptian engineers who learned their business working with RCA in New York. Its programs are piped from Cairo on a special secret telephone line. The announcer's voice sounds much like the voice of the man who has made Radio Cairo...
Thus, even as Nasser plunged into the Arab circle that he marked out for an Egyptian sphere of influence in his The Philosophy of the Revolution, he found time to push Egyptian leadership in his "second circle-the continent of Africa.'' Nasser wrote then: "The white man, representing various European nations, is again trying to redivide the map of Africa. We will never in any circumstances be able to relinquish our responsibility to support, with all our might, the spread of enlightenment and civilization to the remotest depths of the jungle...