Nasser at War : Arab Images of the Enemy

Nasser At War Analyses A Critical Turning Point For The Modern Middle East. From His 1956 Suez Triumph To The 1967 Defeat, President Nasser Of Egypt Dominated The Arab Revolution. Drawing On New Arabic Material, This History Casts A Fresh Light On Nasser's Era And Legacy Of Conflict. Its Exploration Of His Changing Enemy Images, And How His Former Us Ally Came To Be Viewed As An Imperialist Opponent, Provides An Essential Background To Developments In The Contemporary Arab World--publisher Description. Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Coming And The Going : Friends And Enemies Of The Egyptian Revolution -- 2. Eliminate The Past : Nationalising The Suez Canal Company -- 3. When The Bombs Started Falling : Suez And The Arab Hero -- 4. Revolution Or Something To Raise Our Morale : Intervention In Yemen -- 5. A Very Big Forest : Lions And Tigers And Bears -- 6. Different Names For The Same Thing : Imperialism, Zionism And Reaction -- 7. You Are Welcome, We Are Ready For War : 1967 -- 8. One Continuous Nightmare : The Aftermath Of Defeat -- 9. No Alternative To Battle : The War Of Attrition-- 10. Conclusion : Ambiguous Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Laura M. James. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 179-231) And Index. From his 1956 Suez triumph to the defeat of 1967, President Nasser of Egypt dominated the Arab revolution. Through a comination of new radio technology, radical rhetoric and personal charisma, he changed the political face of the region and defined a common Arab identity. Today, as the Arab world is once again brought together by new media and emotive issues, Nasser's legacy has developed a startling contemporary resonance. Drawing on new Arabic material and high-level insider interviews, Nasser at War casts a fresh light on the Nasser era, revealing it as a critical turning point. It explains the failure of initial Egyptian attempts to improve relations with Britain, the former colonial power; the bitter dynamics of inter-Arab competition; and how the Arab-Israeli conflict reached an uncompromising impasse. This exploration of Nasser's changing enemy images, which caused his former US ally to be seen as an imperialist opponent, provides an essential background to developments in the modern Middle East