Abstract
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt between 1952 and 1970, was the thirdmajor partner in the Non-AlignedMovement. His era saw a massive upheaval in both the literal and the mental maps of the Middle East. Nasser came to political maturity at a time when the region was almost entirely dominated by British and French colonialism. The coup d’état led by his coterie of free officers was the beginning of the end for British influence in Egypt. However, the country’s stance (and that of much of the rest of the Arab world) in the face of the new Cold War divisions took longer to define.
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