Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Within the Arab world." said Egypt's Strongman Nasser in 1953, "there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero." Last week President Nasser made his biggest bid yet for the role of Arabism's hero. Meeting simultaneously in Cairo and Damascus, the Egyptian and Syrian Parliaments unanimously adopted his terms for immediate union and nominated him as sole candidate for President of the United Arab Republic...
Call It Democracy. Nasser and Kuwatly announced that the new state would be ratified next week by a plebiscite in which its 24 million Egyptian and 4 million Syrian citizens are also expected to name Nasser their chief. The President will appoint both Cabinet and Parliament, plus "executive councils" for each of the union's two "regions...
Soviet-built jets flashed through Cairo's sky. A crowd of 5,000 packed the courtyard of the ministerial palace. The Syrian Cabinet waved from one balcony, the Egyptian Cabinet from another. And from a third beamed Egypt's President Nasser and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly. Then at 5:10 one afternoon last week, Syria's Premier Sabri el Assali stepped to the railing and from a green leather book read the proclamation signed by the two Presidents, declaring that Egypt and Syria had merged to form the "United Arab Republic...
...brief speech. Orated Kuwatly: "A great day in the history of the Arabs, and a turning point in world events." For hours the greatest throngs in Cairo's history whooped it up as the Presidents rode through the streets, under triumphal arches decked in Syrian and Egyptian flags...
...short, shrewd Sayed Ismail el Azhari, an ex-schoolteacher and longtime nationalist whom the British once jailed ("In a backward country, prison is the politician's university, and I graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that often slips over into outright anti-Westernism. El Azhari's main strength is in the cities in the north, while Khalil's speeches...