We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World Rowell Alex
We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World Rowell Alex Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'tat he led…
Specifikacia We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World Rowell Alex
We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World Rowell Alex
Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'tat he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy, Alex Rowell argues, lies at the heart of the violent and repressive order that still prevails throughout the Arab world today.We Are Your Soldiers examines seven countries--Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, and Libya--weaving the epic tale of Nasser's dramatic encounters with each to reassess his impact in the Arab sphere. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime.
Rowell shows how the Nasser years These engagements were often drenched in blood and destruction, leaving deep scars that endure to the present.