Gamal Abdel Nasser

Egypt was not very happy with Britain’s control of the Suez Canal. In the year of 1952, army officers commenced a revolution to overthrow King Farouk and in 1953 a republic was established in Egypt. The leader of this revolution was Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser and became the

and France wanted to take control of this canal and to remove President Abdel Nasser, until the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced the those countries to withdraw from Egypt. This incident humiliated the UK and France and help Egypt not only won the Suez Canal crisis but also gained respect by applying Ends Ways And Means. Regional dominance and undisputed leader of the Arab World Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was

The lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to form a group called the Free officers’ movement. This group consisted of army members who wanted to abolish the monarchy that was linked to the British Empire and replace it with a republic. On July 23rd, 1949 the Free officers’ movement led by Muhammad Naguib and Nasser, overthrew King Farouk. King Farouk sailed into exile on his yacht on July 26 1952. Egypt was finally named a republic on June 18th, 1953 and Nasser became Egypt’s first ever

drastic shifts in political power on a global scale. In 1952, in the midst of a revolutionary era in the Middle East, a group of men called the “Free Officers,” led by Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of the Egyptian government and exiled King Farouk (Troen and Moshe 4). Shortly after, Nasser himself took authority of the republic. One of Nasser’s early projects was the construction of Aswan High Dam, which, when completed, would help solve

By 1908, the country had ten movie houses, three of them in Alexandria and five in Cairo. As more Egyptians viewed the films, they started to become interested in the art of filmmaking. The first Egyptian films by an Egyptian were made in 1912 by Abdel Rahman Salheya after hiring outside technicians. In 1927, Layla became the first full length but silent movie in the country. In the 1980s, film production in Egypt started decreasing. However, the latest trend in the Egyptian movie industry seems

DORIA SHAFIQ AND HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARAB WOMEN'S LITERATURE Doria Shafiq was a feminist and a philosopher. She was also an editor and a poet, and one of the principal leaders of the women’s liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s meaning that she was a women’s rights activist. Through her efforts, she fought against women oppression in Egypt. Doria Shafiq was born in Tanta in the Nile Delta of Northern Egypt and studied in a French mission school. She was the youngest Egyptian at the

At present, many Arabs have suspended their belief in the Arab nation, and now openly doubt whether there is a collective Arab mission. Those recently swept up by Islamic activism prefer to think of themselves first and foremost as Muslims, and do so without apology. However, for a significant period of time, Arab nationalism was considered the leading ideology in the Arab world. In the 20th century, Arab nationalism proved to be a dominant and influential movement. However, the inability of the

(Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo & Schulze, 2008, p.432). Britain and France then both issued an ultimatum, for both Israeli and Egyptian forces to withdraw from the Suez Canal, citing its safety from the violence of war as extremely important. After Gamal Abder Nasser, Egypt’s President at the time, rejected the ultimatum, on the 30th

The majority of Middle Eastern countries have suffered for decades under authoritarian regimes and have not succeeded at reforming their oppressive policies or at democratizing. There have been arguments made stating that it is nearly impossible for the Middle East to democratize and that as a region, democracy will not work. There was also another argument made stating that Islam does not allow for democracy to exist. Both these arguments ignore the history of the region, in which foreign powers

A novel The Committee by Sonallah Ibrahim tells a story of an Egyptian man that is sent to be questioned by the mysterious Committee. A couple months after being question by the Committee, the main character is then sent on a task to find an individual that aluminates. The protagonist decides to research about The Doctor, a prominent Arab figure, but the Committee comes to his house to notify him that he needs to change his topic. The main character’s decision not to change his topic makes him go