Word: nasserism
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...Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...
...Instructor at the military academy, Nasser married the daughter of a Cairo rug merchant. Nasser saw no World War II action. The British had reoccupied Egypt, ringed Farouk's palace with tanks, made the King accept their nominee for wartime Premier...
...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...
...Dismissing Naguib as not revolutionary enough, Nasser became Premier himself. He negotiated British withdrawal from their Suez base, attended the Bandung Conference, and then, after rejecting a limited U.S. offer, ordered arms from the Soviet bloc...
...Umma. The secret of Nasser's rise to power is that he rides, and sometimes controls, though at other times he is controlled by, the most powerful political force in the Arab world-the idea of Al Umma al Arabia, the dream of Arab unity, of one Arab nation. The idea in modern times sprang up first about 1870 at, of all places, Beirut, among, of all people, Christian Lebanese students of the American University of Beirut. U.S. education, received by Christian Arabs, was the first modern catalyst in the retort where Arab unity began to simmer and then...