Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then...
...student at Cairo's Al Nahda secondary school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
...Became President of the United Arab Republic (Feb. 1, 1958), following the merger of Syria and Egypt (Feb. 1, 1958). His Egyptian majority...
...year-old Al Azhar University, who is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope, seems to spend much of his time looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers who have flooded the Arab-speaking world, helping to spark pro-Nasser riots in Jordan and to turn the people of oil-rich Kuwait and Saudi Arabia against their rulers...
...their own lawful Arab rulers as "traitors" merely for entering into agreements with "foreigners." To this persuasive passion, Nasser adds the helping hand of subversion. An Israeli statistician who has been keeping score says that since Nasser came to power, every Arab country has kicked out at least one Egyptian military attache. Such is the menace of Nasser's penetration in other countries that when the Libyans caught their Egyptian attache handing out guns last year, they passed a law expelling all North African military attaches in the country so as to avoid any public showdown with the Egyptians...