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Analyse the role of Egypt after the Second World War in bringing about Arab unity.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

Egypt emerged from the Second World War as the demographic and intellectual centre of the Arab world, and over the following two decades it converted that weight into sustained, if ultimately incomplete, leadership of the pan-Arab cause.

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  • The Pre-Nasser Background: A Reluctant Arab Leader
  • The Free Officers Coup and the Turn to Pan-Arabism
  • The Suez Crisis as a Prestige Triumph
  • The United Arab Republic and the Limits of Union
  • Assessing Egypt's Leadership: Achievement and Limits

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