Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has so far refrained from joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison...
...Communists and Nasserites, Egyptian Communist Writer Fathi Abdel Fattah tells of leftists imprisoned during Nasser's reign who were not allowed to wear shoes even while being forced to do hard labor in desert areas infested by scorpions and snakes. Another anti-Nasser book, called Second Grade in Prison by Mustafa Amin, a prominent rightist who spent nine years in Nasser's jails, charges that 21 political prisoners were murdered in their cells in 1957 simply because they refused to do hard labor...
Chorus of Abuse. Some of the recent attacks on Nasser also challenge his revolutionary credentials. In an al Akhbar article, former Socialist Leader Ahmed Hussein charges that on the night of the anti-Farouk coup, Nasser, then a lieutenant colonel, donned civilian clothes and was sitting in his auto ready to escape if the revolt failed. Only when success seemed assured did he join his fellow officers...
...Nasser's portrait still hangs beside Sadat's in many government offices in Cairo. Nonetheless, the de-Nasserization campaign in Egypt is likely to accelerate. For one thing, Sadat's pragmatic approach to Egypt's future is quite different from Nasser's inflamed rhetoric and crusading Pan-Arab ideology. For another, Sadat's dramatic foreign policy shift-turning Egypt increasingly toward the West-requires that Nasser's pro-Soviet policies be discredited. In Ab-dou's recent book, for example, Nasser is denounced for "bringing the Russians into the Mediterranean...
Outside Egypt, however, the veneration of Nasser will continue. Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and other Arabs are using the memory of Nasser to attack Sadat, who is regarded by the hardliners as soft toward Israel for having signed the second Sinai accord. Conveniently, the radical Arabs forget that even Nasser mellowed somewhat before his death, accepting in principle...