The 1960s in the Arab World - Episode 1: Politics | Al Jazeera World Documentary

The 1960s was a decade of change that hugely impacted the Arab world.
This first of three episodes follows the politics of the time: The rise of Arab nationalism, the newfound independence of former French colonies, and the defeat of Arab armies in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
The stories of the shifting sands of the 60s are told by many who were there, including former government ministers, broadcasters, activists and writers.
They recall a decade whose end was profoundly different from the beginning, where loyalties shifted and old certainties were challenged. Later episodes chart the culture and society of this transformative decade.
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[@DonJuanMarco1994]

You should pin this comment.

[@MEGIDIOT]

Vintage Arab is such a pleasing aesthetic 😍

[@kashmoriboy2712]

I've been watching Al Jazeera for the last 6 years and this network has increased my interest in Political and Historical studies. Likewise, It has helped me to learn so much about the Middle East's chronology and Politics. Al Jazeera is one of the factors which increased my interest in Political Studies in the future.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

We're glad to hear that. Many thanks for your kind words. 🧡

[@user-os1hn1zz5u]

Whenever I am trying to learn something about history and politics I always visit Al Jazeera ☺

[@yourib5152]

Me I also visit Al Jazeera. Like to have the largest view possible. Then there are the books.

[@Antifaschistische1865]

Beautiful documentary

[@cathy1154]

Amazing documentaries and underrated.

[@86MarcusP]

This Episode is a Masterpiece, everyone can learn from history 🔱🤔🔥🙏🏽

[@aljazeeraenglish]

🙋

[@riccardo9383]

It's important to mention the US was behind plenty of coups and military interventions in the Arab world.

[@Charlie0l9]

America? Backing anti-Isreal/America pro-Palestinian coups in the 60s? Think you mean Latin-America. If you are going around spreading anti-American propaganda at least do some basic research.

[@Aan_allein]

Lies

[@u-3641]

Be brave and admit that you are servants of Israel. Many Egyptian and Arab scholars and students in the United States and Europe have died at the hands of your intelligence. You can extinguish the light of knowledge for the sake of Israel. No one believes peace​@@Aan_allein

[@Saj_R]

Vintage Arab is such a pleasing aesthetic 😍 (2)

[@fidahusayn8691]

Amazing

[@ramthian]

Thanks 🙏

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Very interesting series.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Many thanks for your comment! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@kaleemmuhammad3284]

Nasser will be remembered for his efforts to unite Arab under one umbrella and to liberate Palestine 🇵🇸

[@seancurran8249]

Really how’s it going for his people today 💔💔💔

[@Shadydoszka]

And for his victories 😂 not a single one 😅

[@StraussBR]

@@Shadydoszka sometimes you can measure the size of the man also by the size of his enemies

[@Mohamed-bc3on]

Interesting documentary. When does the second episode air?

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thank you! It will air on August 9th and be uploaded on KZbin by the 10th.

[@Mohamed-bc3on]

@@aljazeeraenglish thank you so much

[@MrM4DM4N]

I love al jazeera and their documentaries so much that I downloaded it for my roku TV.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

The 1960s in the Arab World - Episode 2: Culture: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWKbn2Wkj5irmbM

[@agentoxide]

15:55 Nasser never spoke about throwing Israel into the sea, nor described his vision in terms of a dream, he spoke about projects and goals. The speaker here is trying to unfairly belittle Nasser and his popularity 1:19 its very strange of this speaker to describe the so called "traditional monarchies" in the Gulf, Jordan and morocco as "stable"! they all experienced political crises and power struggles, the peaceful transfer of power was a rare event in these monarchies so calling them stable is highly inaccurate to say the least. Also, there was no "penetration" of Arab nationalism. It was homegrown within Arab society and regions, the speaker here is minimizing the spontaneous popularity of Nasser and to sideline the local Arab nationalism movements. 39:51 very strange take here. The 1967 crisis began as a power struggle for the strait of Tiran and the naval passage from the gulf of Aqaba, one can say that this is a national security battle for Egypt and a continuation of the 1956 war. Also, it's nonsense that Nasser died in 67, the speaker here is dimensioning the colossal effort to rebuild the army from the bottom up which was led by Nasser, along with waging a war of attrition. Not to mention two pro-Nasse governments were established after the defeat of 67 in Sudan and Libya. 45:35 the speaker failed to realize that Europe in the 60s was in a different stage of development than the Arab region. Arab countries were taking the first steps towards nation-building while facing imperialist interventions and the creation of the colonial state of Israel. All of those great values of liberty and education are worthless if you don't eliminate the existential colonial threat posed by those same European countries he speaks highly of.

[@Bolognabeef]

Cope you try to be a bully but got humiliated as usual, Arabs suck at war you cowards can only kill civilians by blowing up 🐷 Israel is there and there's nothing you can do about it

[@AtabekZingi]

There is indeed a lot to understand from that period and to learn from the missed opportunities during that pivotal decade of the modern Arab world history... Aljazeera, as usual, forgot to mention the Islamic political movements which were lurking in the shadows waiting for their moment to shine over the ruins of the defeat of the nationalism, and bring upon the Arab world the second wave of destruction... poor Arabs, from decolonisation until today, we still believe the preacher and wait for a miracle to save us.

[@lalyosos7720]

By the way there is no nationalism in the arab world since most "arab countries" were not real countries based on cultural/language/ethnicity... and they were created by the one "who doesn't believe the preacher"... You cannot divide the arab people and Islam; so you better work with both of them if you want to have people behind you

[@sheikh.ibnul.abdi123]

Can u guys plz🙏🏾 do the Arab world in the 50s

[@cestmoifu1406]

24:13 Does anyone know what song that is that is playing?? The artist? I would love to hear that song in its entirety & see the lyrics.

[@azerazer9236]

A lot of enthusiam...but also a lot of suffering....a lot of repression....nd conspiracies....Big Dreams became Big nightmares....

[@noorfraz7440]

When will ep 2 come?

[@jarosawbielski2301]

It is the glory of God to keep things secret, and to consider these things with the glory of kings.

[@cengizhanoglu293]

Can anybody tell me the name of song plays in 24:08

[@ramthian]

❤️❤️❤️😊

[@theunbeatable6598]

Are u guys gonna make a 70s and 80s version as well?

[@aljazeeraenglish]

yes the 70s films are coming out this week

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@aljazeeraenglish omg yessss Also, 5 months for the reply lol

[@aljazeeraenglish]

@@theunbeatable6598 thanks for your patience! :)

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@aljazeeraenglish Youre welcome. Btw I've a story for Al Jazeera to share, its international and relevant to the channel. How do I contact the writer/press/journalist etc like do u have an email?

[@mohammadrezaei-sw5bs]

Why don't the videos have subtitles?

[@aliachouri4725]

5 July 1962 🇩🇿🇩🇿 long live to the arab world maybe one day we will be united

[@John-pk9rw]

You’re not even Algerian. You’re Arab. Don’t use our flag.

[@envt]

Why didn't Egypt give gaza to the palestinians in the 60s? And why didn't Jordan give Jerusalem and the westbank to the palestinians in the 60s?

[@u1rtc7t5f64t157856v8]

Bc Arab solidarity is a lie, that sells well, so autocracies can survive and suck up all the wealth in the region while saying that Israel and the West are the main culprits.

[@truthseekers864]

Because the so called "Palestinian" identity was invented as a tool against Israel. In reality, none of Israel's neighbors wanted a Palestinian state. Rather, they each wanted land for themselves.

[@KemetEG]

Because Palestine wasn't recognised by UN and Egypt was training Palestinians in gaza

[@asdf-kg3qb]

Why should a country give land to somebody else? It’s to their advantage to keep everything.

[@kasinski123]

because Arabs love each other

[@John-pk9rw]

Arabs be like: “France colonized North Africa!” as if they didn’t do the same thing😂😂😂😂😂 in fact France doesn’t claim our land anymore. Arabs still claim our land to this day. They refer to North Africa as “al maghreb al arabi”. Ironically the same people who cry about how Israel is occupying “their” land😂

[@Bolognabeef]

Exactly the hypocrisy. I bet if Spain didn't liberate themselves the Arabs would still say they're natives of Spain 😂

[@user-ey2fx9pb5k]

@@Bolognabeefyes. It’s ours and our army arrived to France but that occurred along time 😉

[@vernedavis5856]

6 or 60 or 600yrs ago, the peoples &conflicts do not change. Peace be upon u & ur enemies. Build or don't , do not destroy. g5, crabby, old veteran

[@AraAli0]

Undoubtedly, Nasser was the almighty of Arab nationalism. The problem was he thought that by arousing ordinary people on the street, victory would be realized, while people on the street followed him in the expectation that he would lead them to victory. Practically, both disappointed the other. War requires charisma and passion can harden fighting spirit, I get that. But ultimately war, or starting PR stirring one, requires strategic planning and cold calculation which is the job of the general staff. He probably broke the record in delivering rousing speeches; he indeed fired up the nationalist sentiment of the Arabs far and wide, still he failed to lead them. People were ready for sacrifice, but sacrifice is sheer suicide without strategy, which is a complex and dispassionate undertaking.

[@suryanaray7942]

In india day by day fear of gujarat type communal clashes democracy democracy in danger peoples are feared UNO intervention is necessary please protect the secularism in india and FBI investigation is necessary please protect the peoples in india

[@resurrectedone7463]

India it is not a secular country.. It runs by 'Hindutva Rashtra' which have an extreme view of 'All Hindu' India

[@gaurikholkute4081]

if you feel threatened please leave India

[@gamingonly645]

How dump you are to ask fbi help 😂

[@yourib5152]

where from came the weapons? in how far the occidend where involved (US in the first place?) would like to know, especialy when we see how it went in Palestine.

[@jeremyhodge6216]

The 1960's seems to be a troublesome time in the Arab world 🤔

[@vampireknightvk]

Since after ww2 when uk, france and US divided the middle east to ensure instability

[@wanjiruciru6237]

Africa on the other hand was freeing herself from her colonizers.

[@truthseekers864]

The Arab world is always in some sort of turmoil. When the Turks colonised them, it was a little more stable.

[@Noxcho-li8pn]

@@truthseekers864 the turks never colonized them it was a khilafa and a khilafa is a blessing and the secular rule beought killing,destruction and lawlessness

[@lordwar4585]

@truthseekers864 close your mouth .. you western bastdooo

[@dexterdev]

Now I know where VIMTO copied their music from: 11:06

[@dexterdev]

11:56

[@sohrabamiri7917]

at the time they love each others but now they killing each.others their Wisedom gone away !

[@atambwalisametana6363]

Omar Sharif??

[@muhammadihsan2516]

Terrible subtitles. Documentaries should be dubbed

[@vernedavis5856]

give, send no money(!)leave food, materials & tools on the undeveloped coast. Whom builds for others &or themselves?

[@Noxcho-li8pn]

It will never end never and never until this region and people have the khilafa back and the secularist and outside infidels are pushed out of these Lands

[@AraAli0]

The rise of republicanism in Iraq carried with it a fantastic dream for a better future, not least as far as the farming class was concerned. According to the accounts of our people of the period, during the monarchy the landlord-farmer relationship was not much less exploitative than master-slave relationship in America's ninetieth and early twentieth centuries

[@suryanaray7942]

Honble UPA Chairperson Smt Soniagandhi madum please fight for to implement Ballot Paper voting system in next MP elections in 2024and to save democracy in india and public opinion in favour of Ballot Paper voting system and right to vote is fundamental right.public opinion is foundation of democracy

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Ah yes, the short-lived and doomed UAR... The problem with "Arab unity" is always this simple question: who is in charge?

[@armen8624]

cant hear anything stop whispering its distrubing

[@khubza8999]

Didn't the number of Israeli soldiers exceed the combined Arab armies in 1948? Where did Israel get its soldiers (IDF and 'lone' soldiers)? It's equipment? (Rumor has it that Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert, was involved in arms transfers). How and why was Nasser tricked into mobilizing (some say by false Soviet intelligence ) in 1967 when most of Egypt's army was tied up in Yemen? I feel as if the story of the 1967 war has never been convincingly told.

[@ibrahimconteh9032]

0!

[@truthseekers864]

Israel's forces did not exceed the combined forces of the Arabs. Israel mainly received weapons from France at the time. Nasser did receive false information from the Soviets. However, it was his ego which prevented him from backing down. Thus, he led his country to disaster.

[@theunbeatable6598]

Well, its always fishy just like how they also claimed that Israel won the 70s war which they absolutely lost to Egypt but since Egypt was aided somewhat by the Soviets, the Western Propaganda couldn't stomach it

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@theunbeatable6598 israel won the war in the 73 what are u talking about lol its arab Propaganda that made egyptians think they won and took sinai by force in reality they only got sinai back in 1982

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@mizrahiwithattitude2733 Lmao nope, israel was clapped in the 73 by the Egypt despite relentless aid from usa. The west threw the propaganda that Israel lost coz Egypt was allied with the soviets. Egypt gained the whole Sinai and booted israel while israel was given the privilege to exaggerate the casualties of Egypt lmao

[@bobperrone2105]

so the pals are egyptian

[@John-pk9rw]

The Tunisian constitution discriminating Amazigh people (the original inhabitants of Tunisia), completely stripping them from their language rights and denying their existence and identity in favor of pan arabism. Some random old woman: “the new constitution affirmed human rights”

[@kracey7143]

Tell us more. Thank you.

[@djblackjackwannabedeji1194]

Please do tell me about this constitution of Tunisia

[@Middle-Eastern_in_Amsterdam30]

Why not english speaking 😢

[@wa3e.]

Nasser reste le président arabe le plus honorable et le meilleur de l'ère moderne. Malheureusement, il y a eu de nombreuses conspirations contre lui, que ce soit à l'intérieur des pays réactionnaires ou de l'étranger, d'Amérique, d'Israël et des pays coloniaux.

[@Myg770]

Thanks for the documentary, as an Israeli, my parents told me that the arabs wanted to throw us to the sea, and now i see that it was true word by word... When Al Jazeera doesn't try to attack Israel, they actually show some truth

[@Bolognabeef]

Luckily they're useless and even 7 nations against Israel they still lost

[@saddamhussein4480]

Saddam❤Nasser❤Gaddafi❤Assad❤Arafat❤

[@aliachouri4725]

Boumediene

[@user-xs7fk2sf3u]

How many babies born from 1930 until 1960.. That was per day. Between Arab spring and united nation return to child USSR.. Chacha harakat..

[@wa3e.]

هو ليه دايما بحس اللى بيتكلموا فى التاريخ عندنا كعرب غير مؤهلين اصلا اللى عمله عبدالكريم قاسم باعلان شيوعية العراق كان منتهى الغباء وكان خط احمر بالنسبة لناصر لأنه عارف امريكا واقفة تراقب ومستنية اى حجة للتدخل فى المنطقة كلها بحجة التمدد السوفيتى .. وناصر كان فاهم ده وبيقول للسوفيت نبقى حلفاء وليس تابعين ومتغيروش الانظمة لشيوعية .. ووقتها حصلت ازمة بين ناصر وبين السوفيت وصلت للشتائم المتبادلة علانية فى الخطابات .. فعشان كده ناصر رفض اللى عمله قاسم باعلان الشيوعية عامة الفترة وقتها مينفعش تتحكى بشكل سطحى ..كفاية تشويه للوعى العربى بقى التشويه وصل الشعوب انها بقت عدوة نفسها هى وحكامها وبقت مجرد حدائق خلفية لامريكا والغرب وإسرائيل مهمتها انها كلب الحراسة بتاع امريكا والغرب لأى دولة عربية تحاول تتحرر من هذه التبعية

[@alaafadel4566]

ما علاقة قناة الجزيرة ب عبدالناصر والتاريخ المصري تحدثو عن تاريخكم افضل

[@menassies3224]

Anything that stalls Egypt is good news for eyhiopia because unfortunately they have made it us or them

[@wanjiruciru6237]

🤨peace be with Egypt and Ethiopia

[@wa3e.]

الله يرحمك يا ناصر العزة أشرف وأنبل رئيس عربى فى العصر الحديث وكل يوم الوثائق المفرج عنها تظهر كم المؤامرات والخيانات ضده من الداخل والخارج ومن بعده والعرب بقوا مجرد دمى لا صوت لهم والا كلمة والا وزن عبدالناصر لم يكن عسكريا فى حكمه عبدالناصر خلع بدلته وبنى مصر اللى كانت مرتع للاستعمار من القران ال١٨ حاول يوحد العرب لكن للاسف كان فيهم خونة بدرجة ملوك وحملات التشويه الصهيونية اللى بدأت من عملاء امريكا بالمنطقة للاسف هى ما استمرت حتى تم غسل العقل العربى واصبحنا لا قيمة لنا وعلى اخر سلم التطور الانسانى

[@John-pk9rw]

Imagine thinking North Africa is Arab WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA 😂😂😂

[@emineyalcn9514]

🙄Nowomannopeace😔

[@JeroenBIG]

I am against self rule for Arabs.

[@alonnehring402]

Why

[@JeroenBIG]

@@alonnehring402 it's like letting a monkey fly an airplane

[@Adnann1234]

Arab nationalism is the reason Israel has won so much and will be winning more. Arab nationalism is racist in its core, there is a lot of other ethnicities in the Arab Liga countries.. waaaaayy morr than everyone can imagine.. therefore unity is a impossible. Unifying 400million people because they speak one language is impossible imagine that a lot of these millions do not even identify as arabs. It's like dreaming of having Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zidane, Pele, Cruijf, etc. in one team before going out on the pitch to play and win.

[@Ravi-ot6xj]

Mix Islam with anything and take it for sure that it will be destroyed.

[@pal-a]

Arab should comeout of Islam and accept that God created all religion and all religion are good. Islamisation of Arab is the worst thing happened to the world. There are many wonderful religions and spiritual, cultural practices that were destroyed by Islamisation. It should end.

[@malekaltayari3936]

In your dreams لا اله إلا الله محمد رسول اللله 🌹⚔️☪️⚔️🌹🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳

[@pal-a]

@@malekaltayari3936 dream come true because that's what God wants. God doesn't want Jihad. All Jihadis will be punished by God.

[@kmso81]

No 😌

[@Othmanebenosmane]

Long live Israël

[@irshadkhan3727]

neo najis , Zionist days r numbered. Z is coming.

[@malekaltayari3936]

*Short live 🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@Bolognabeef]

@@malekaltayari3936 cry about it Israel is there and you can only talk like all coward Arabs do 🐷

[@user-xs7fk2sf3u]

Currucy . hadah kam .. Per/ month.. Kef mafeh fullos rakef yanni pakar quais..