Word: nasserism
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...letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord, I have married an Honourable ... I shoot and fish well. I have a booming voice and am very tall. I was a very good soldier. I am pro-hanging. I hate Nasser. I love the Prime Minister...
...well educated to get Hilton jobs) have left to be married, making the Hilton such a popular employer that a large percentage of girls are among the 40,000 people who have applied there for jobs. A Cairo transit firm hired 25 lady conductors, responding to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's program for the economic emancipation of Egyptian women. Within six months most of the girl conductors had married either drivers or passengers. Today only three are left on the job. Though Cairo's Moslem women have not been kept in purdah in modern times, the new chance...
...prestige during the troubled days of 1958 (when he was more respected abroad than at home), the young King's comeback was spectacular. Ironically, he owes much of his new popularity to the fact that he has established friendlier relations with his old adversary, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who remains the hero of Arab nationalism, even if the enthusiasm of Jordanians for direct union with Egypt has waned. The border between Syria and Jordan, closed for weeks by Nasser's United Arab Republic, was ordered reopened by Cairo, and last week Hussein announced: "Diplomatic relations with the U.A.R. will...
...Egypt. Nasser, chastened by forced coexistence with Kassem, and wiser in the ways of Communist purposes in the Middle East, seems less tense than he was, less eager for adventures, more mindful of mending fences and improving the economy at home. The fact that the most pervasive propaganda weapon in the Middle East, Nasser's Cairo radio, now outspokenly attacks the Communists in the Middle East is a gain...
...theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned...