Word: nasserism
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...entire Arab world, disunited as it was, was shocked by the 1967 defeat. "No Westerner," says a Lebanese intellectual, "can fully understand the sense of peril we felt after 1967." He traces the rise of the new Arab mentality to Nasser's "farewell" speech, of June 1967, in which the humiliated Egyptian leader declared: "The imperialists believe this was a personal defeat for Nasser. But it was a defeat for the whole Arab people, and the Arab people will not accept that defeat...
...months later, at a postwar conference in Khartoum, Nasser achieved a sort of pan-Arab detente, primarily with Saudi Arabia and Libya. The new relationship between Egypt and Saudi Arabia was particularly important because it helped eradicate the ideological conflicts of what had been a kind of inter-Arab cold war. Egypt, after all, was officially a socialist state; Saudi Arabia was a traditionalist monarchy. "Nasser's revolution," says the same Lebanese scholar, "was replaced by the beginning of a moderate, middle-of-the-road nationalist Arab...
Operation Spark. The political developments encouraged by Nasser coincided with momentous social changes taking place throughout the Arab world. A generation ago, Egypt did not even have free primary education; today there are more than 200,000 students in its universities. Twenty-five years ago the Arabian-American Oil Co. started a small school to teach Saudis to read and write well enough to take low-level clerical jobs in the company. Today Saudis with advanced degrees in economics and engineering have not only learned how to run their petroleum industry; as the West is finding to its discomfort, they...
Bungled Plots. T.E. Lawrence once remarked that the Arabs believe in people rather than institutions. To the extent that this is true, Egypt-and the rest of the Arab world as well-has suffered for the lack of a living hero since Nasser's death in 1970. Certainly, few Arabs at first noticed anything particularly charismatic about his successor...
Sadat first met Nasser in 1938, when both men were lieutenants in the army. At the time, Sadat was a hothead who schemed and dreamed about blowing up British installations; Nasser was the cooler one who dissuaded him from such wild plots. With others, the two soldiers formed the nucleus of what became the Free Officers' Committee, which eventually ousted King Farouk in 1952. For all his antimonarchical zeal, Sadat almost missed the coup. On the night that it was scheduled to take place, Sadat somehow failed to receive his tip-off message and spent the evening...