POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak
6 Oct 2016
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Egypt makes up almost of the arab world population. Egypt was first arab state in war: against israel 1948, 1956, 1967 and. Egypt also first arab state in peace: in 1978 became the first arab country to recognize and be recognized by jewish state. Arab league founded in cairo in 1945, to promote pan-arabism. Only notable arab development to not have originated in egypt = arab. But it was egypt"s revolution that made the diffusion of the arab. It was seen as the almighty centre for the arab world. Some others even claim it came in 2013 when egypt overthrew their democratically elected government and installed morsi. (differing opinions in the region) Basically, it is clear today that egypt is wrecked by violence and near economic collapse. Egypt was not created by colonial powers: it has existed since the time of. Pharaohs more than 3000 years before the birth of jesus.
