Volume 46, Number 17 · November 4, 1999
The Eyptian Gamble
By Shaul Bakhash
Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question
by Michael Doran
Oxford University Press, 230 pp., $35.00
Michael Doran's book on the shaping of Egypt's foreign policy concentrates on the brief but eventful four-year period between the end of World War II and the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Yet the book, he notes, 'is haunted by the specter of Gamal Abd al-Nasser.' For a decade and a half after 1952, when Nasser and the 'Free Officers' associated with him seized power and overthrew the Egyptian monarchy, Nasser dominated the Arab Middle East, embodying Arab aspirations for unity and for a leader who would undo the Arab defeat at Israeli hands in the 1948 war.
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