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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...
...Became President of the United Arab Republic (Feb. 1, 1958), following the merger of Syria and Egypt (Feb. 1, 1958). His Egyptian majority...
...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...
...vague and emotional concept of Arab unity, influenced by 19th century European nationalism, held that the Arabic language, Arab ways, and a common past of glorious medieval empire should unite 70 million Arabs from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The intellectuals' enthusiasm sparked a political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath...
...annals of history," Nasser has written, "are full of heroes who carved for themselves great and heroic roles, and played them on momentous occasions. It seems to me that in the Arab world there is a role wandering in search of a hero." Nasser volunteered to be that hero...