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By Amos Perlmutter
This booklet is a serious research of the modern and historic roots of a brand new kind of political management in Egypt, relationship from the July 23, 1952 revolution led through an idealistic Egyptian nationalist and pan-Arabist named Gamal Abdul Nasser. The Nasser regime is interpreted as primarily a praetorian political process, during which the army has the capability to dominate the political constitution, with the military as a middle staff and as a ruling classification. In this kind of method, political management is recruited mostly from the army.
This quantity chronicles the evolution of praetorian regimes usually, after which translates Nasser's ascendancy to energy from this angle. The 1956 takeover ofthe Suez Canal and Nasser's transformation of his 1967 army debacle right into a nationwide "victory" is analyzed because the climax of his occupation. His lack of ability to cement the uncomfortable federation with Syria and the imbroglio over his intervention in Yemen are noticeable because the starting of his decline, culminating within the disastrous Six-Day struggle and his failure to avoid Hussein's annihilation of the Palestinians in Jordan.
Nasser's contribution to the recent form of politics wide-spread within the Arab and sub-Saharan African worlds is evaluated. additionally integrated is an research of the machinations of coup-preparing and coup-making, and reviews at the neo-Islamic, company orientations of the post-Nasser praetorians.
Perlmutter's paintings is exclusive in its blend of in depth scholarship, kowledge of Egyptian politics and familiarity with and skill to take advantage of present social technology recommendations. Egypt: The Praetorian kingdom is the 1st complete analytic and interpretive learn of the Nasserite phenomenon.
CONTENTS: army Praetorianism: a brand new kind of Politics / The ancient Context / Egypt's army: A innovative New heart classification? / Political energy and Social team spirit in Nasser's Egypt / Experiments in Praetorianism: Nasser's Regimes and Political events / The patience of Nasserism: the army vs. the ASU
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I stared at the stars, bracing myself for the verbal pokes D O W N T H E N I L E 41 and slaps, but the man remained silent. Without asking how old I was, where I was from, or whether I was married, he said softly, “This is my boat. You can using it any times. It is always in docked across in front of Oberoi Hotel. You don’t need ask. ” The pier was illuminated only by the dim lights of restaurants on the bank above it, and it was difficult to make out the man’s features in the moonless night. His words carried trust and respect and were surprisingly devoid of the usual distancing banter, the jokes, the sexual innuendo, or mention of money.
Passengers only were allowed on the upper deck, while the lower deck was reserved for the usually flea-ridden crew. The kitchen, a shed equipped with a charcoal stove, was situated toward the front of the boat, away from the passengers’ cabins. Amelia Edwards, who traveled up the Nile in 1872 and wrote a staggeringly detailed account of her trip, including every hieroglyph she studied, every snack she ate, and the number of steps at the Temple of Horus at Edfu (she counted 224), offers in her book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, probably the most thorough description extant of a Nile dahabieh: A dahabeeyah [has] four sleeping cabins, two on each side.
It struck me as uniquely unlikely, like finding a book called Mother Teresa’s Personal Guide to the Mississippi, or Notes on the Volga by Grandma Moses. I thought it had to be some other Florence Nightingale. It wasn’t. I opened the book to its dead center and read: We saw the whole crew start up, fl ing down their oars, and begin to fight violently . . howling and screaming and kicking, the boat of course drifting down upon the rocks meantime . . Out rushed Paolo with an ebony club, — which I had bought from the Berber savages coming up the cataract .