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Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries
and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to
present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year
intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser
later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse Ferris argues that
Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played
a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold
War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its
economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of
missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. Viewing the Six Day
War as an unintended consequence of the Saudi-Egyptian struggle
over Yemen, Ferris demonstrates that the most important Cold War
conflict in the Middle East was not the clash between Israel and
its neighbors. It was the inter-Arab struggle between monarchies
and republics over power and legitimacy. Egypt's defeat in the
"Arab Cold War" set the stage for the rise of Saudi Arabia and
political Islam. Bold and provocative, Nasser's Gamble brings to
life a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East. Its
compelling analysis of Egypt's fall from power in the 1960s offers
new insights into the decline of Arab nationalism, exposing the
deep historical roots of the Arab Spring of 2011.
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