When Egypt Led The Arab World | Egypt Documentary

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Egypt has always been pivotal to regional developments. From the Ancient Egyptians, to the Romans to the Ottomans - all valued it. Throughout the 20th century, the revolutionary sentiment was channeled to oppose imperialism and assert Egyptian sovereignty. The pinnacle of this assertiveness was reached under the enigmatic Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose presidency in the 1950s and 1960s saw Egypt become a leader of the non-aligned bloc, those countries that were not allied to the USA or the USSR. Throughout the Arab world, Egypt became the standard to which all the other countries aspired to be. Its movies, songs and radio stations were broadcasted all across the Middle East and North Africa; whilst Nasser’s Arab socialist ideology was exported and threatened to undermine any Arab government that defied it.
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0:00 Intro
1:30 Under The Monarchy
2:45 The Golden Age Under Nasser
8:10 From Leader to Outcast Under Sadat

[@YoussefMohamed-ws4py]

If nasser didn’t get himself involved in many wars, Egypt would’ve been in such a better place right now, he was so ambitious but almost to the point were his ego blinded him

[@nightking8490]

Well wars are generally good. Duh

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@nightking8490 yeah, except when you know you are fighting against a much stronger enemy

[@thekinghmimidou7001]

yeah he needed to consolidate power, what he did in syria was kinda cringe

[@arthas640]

That was a huge failing with Ba'athism and Pan-Arabism in general. They rather schizophrenically wanted to unite the Arab world but the Arab nations were heavily divided and had little interest in working together outside of a few uniting goals like fighting Israel. They also seemed more interested in untiing the Arab world _under_ Ba'athism rather than _just_ uniting the Arab world, they never really got the Gulf states on their side and unlike other, similar alliances like NATO or EU they didnt really unite under a coalition of different governments, they operated more similarly to Comintern but they lacked the unity to do so. Egotism and overconfidence both plagued many Ba'athist/Pan-Arab states like Syria and Iraq too which hampered any unity and made it more difficult for them to carry out any of their goals, and we can see that over confidence in things like his failure in being a non-aligned country. Being non-aligned is rather hard, which is why even Machiavelli warned against it, since both sides want you to pick a side and Nasser asked for help from the West while publicly opposing the West and while going into a trade/military deal with the USSR (which benefited the USSR and denied the west any possible similar deals).

[@tj5180]

Nasser wasn’t the reason why Egypt got into wars and his death also Sadat taking over the country then the assassination of Sadat by Egyptian army officers and the Islamic Jhiad then Mubarak taking over Egypt who created enemies and was corrupted.

[@juniorjames7076]

If you have a love for both history and English literature, I truly encourage you to read the books of Naguib Mahfouz, who places many of his short stories and novels about Egypt around the 1930s, 40s and 50s. The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street are a MUST!! Your Egyptian friends will wonder how is it you knew so much about post-war Egyptian culture!?!

[@HikmaHistory]

I've come across his name a bunch and I am a fan of short stories! Which one should I start with?

[@juniorjames7076]

@@HikmaHistory The Time and the Place and Other Stories is a great collection of novellas, but honestly I would begin with the novel PALACE WALK (the first book of the Cairo trilogy). Just the first chapters will evoke the ambiance of Cairo circa 1917, British occupation during WW1. Ex: The birth of Radio and recorded sound was the REAL reason Um Kulthoum became a star while other more popular and talented singers coudln't make the transition to the NEW technology of radio and records, and disappeared!). That's just one sample of things you will learn as Mahfouz weaves his fiction around historical facts and tidbits about modern Egypt.

[@Merle1987]

Good suggestion! I just finished Palace Walk and I enjoyed it for it's insight into humanity in general just as much as I enjoyed it for its snapshot into Egyptian history. I can't wait for the next one.

[@lerneanlion]

This is the second time Egypt blew its chance to become a powerful country in the Muslim world. The first time was when Khedive Ismail the Magnificent ended up ruining everything by basically selling his Egypt's status as an independent state to the British to settle the debt he made with Britain. The same also applied to Tunis as well when the Bey of Tunis cannot paid France back the loans. Remember everyone, do not make loans no matter how much desperate you are.

[@zainmudassir2964]

true. Pakistan has completely surrendered to IMF and there is massive inflation due to end of subsidies to fuel and food products

[@leaveme3559]

Brits would have taken egypt one way or the other atleast through this they had some autonomy

[@leaveme3559]

@@zainmudassir2964 pak has surrendered to imf so many times lol

[@juniorjames7076]

Its called Neo-Colonialism, those loans were DESIGNED to enslave Egypt and Tunisia to the western multinational corporations and governments. And they are ready to bribe individuals with money and foreign citizenship to make it happen. Ask Nigeria.

[@johnxina5126]

If only Pakistani politicians would understand that

[@CuriousPersonUSA]

Thank you!

[@HikmaHistory]

No, thank you!

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Excellent work as usual!

[@rkhrahmani]

It is seen in many cases in the Middle East from Egypt to Afghanistan that the leaders who truly try to improve their societies are less appreciated than the ones that are charismatic and populist and bring short-lived moments of pride but eventually long-lasting failures to their nations.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Egypt went from biggest champion against Western imperialism and of Palestinians to ally of US and Israel.

[@warcriminal3414]

I am Egyptian and sadly I agree with you but put in your mind what the western puppet government do is not the will of the Egyptians people go in the street and ask any random Egyptian who is your enemy he will say Israel

[@54032Zepol]

Egypt had hindsight to choose a winning side for once and did so.

[@warcriminal3414]

@@54032Zepol the winning side is now is the losing one

[@carlbates9110]

Sisi plays both sides, it seems. He supported Assad early on in the Syrian Civil War, for example, and seems keen on joining BRICS now.

[@54032Zepol]

@@warcriminal3414 Arabs never win

[@unusualhistorian1336]

Great video, Hikma history!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you!

[@shairkhankhaneducationsyst2540]

Great information for us

[@SomasAcademy]

Nasser's first name is pronounced with a hard "G" sound like in "give," not a soft "J" sound; it's a feature of Egyptian (and Sudanese) Arabic, words that are pronounced with a "J" sound in other Arabic dialects are said with hard "G" sounds instead.

[@zombieat]

Yemeni's also do that.

[@Handle0108]

@Al-Zahrani no, Egyptians literally read all J’s as G’s, I know this cause I live here.

[@HikmaHistory]

Yeah I found that out recently but I'm gonna stick to the softer "J", most of the Islamic world would understand.

[@juniorjames7076]

The first Arabic dialect I learned was Moroccan Arabic, and I realized only North Africans from Algeria, Tunisia and Mauretania could understand me. When I later did a summer program in Egypt and learned Egyptian (Mashreqi) Arabic, EVERYBODY from Lebanon to Yemen could finally communicate with me, because everybody knows the Egyptian dialect thanks to Egypt's Hollywood of movies and music videos.

[@eca3101]

@Al-Zahrani Upper Egyptians say his name "Gamal", not "Jamal"

[@StoicHistorian]

Great video!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks my guy, looking forward to creating a masterpiece with you!

[@sherazbarday821]

keep the up the great content

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you Sheraz!

[@Idontknow-ov5qx]

Some corrections: Naguib was not involved in the 1952 revolution but was appointed by Nasser as a leader after the revolution succeeded. The Suez crisis was not a military crisis but a political one, nobody expected the Egyptian army to defeat Britain/ France. Last, Nasser did not push for the union between Syria and Egypt, the Syrians did while Nasser resisted the temptation until was convinced that Syria would otherwise be at risk.

[@justworship0570]

Jazakallahu khairan ❤️

[@johnwachowicz1966]

What is that painting at 9:04?

[@clivematthews95]

WOW!😮 Nasser was loved, but I believe his successor was a better leader. Egypt has an interesting recent history, I wonder if it’s still allies with Syria Syria is a country that loses no matter who partners with it

[@uuba2]

Hey, why did you put history of Central Asia in description, but have only covered Afghanistan (some find it part of Central Asia), no vid about Central Asia countries (5 ex USSR countries)? Upd: You have Timur video, but I think our region also played some role after and before Timur.

[@HikmaHistory]

I do have an old video on Timur but I will be making more videos on Central Asia in the future. Let me know if you have any good ideas for video topics!

[@uuba2]

@@HikmaHistory this is good news. So for example, I think important timelines and countries 1 Karakhanids, first Turkic country accepted Islam, and their alliance and wars with Saljuqids and Ghaznavids. 2 Mongols start to terrorise Islamic world with crushing Kharazem and Jalal ud-Din (sorry for spelling). 3 Mongols became Muslim after 70-100 years in Chagatai and Golden Horde. 4 What happened when Muhammad Shaibani got killed and Shias attack Bukhara and Samarkand. 5 Russians conquer all Muslim countries in Central Asia.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

You should make a detailed video on Nasser sending army to yemen. It was Egypt Vietnam

[@HikmaHistory]

Maybe

[@egyptianmachimoi2112]

You can't compare the American war in veitnam to the Egyptian war in Yemen. The outcomes are different The USA lost the war with heavy casualties Egypt did have heavy casualties, but won the war in the end.

[@tst2363]

Why "Egypts Vietnam" when Vietnam happened later?

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@tst2363 no. First Vietnam war started in 1945 and second 1955

[@tst2363]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Refering to the greater American involvement, not the beginning of the whole Vietnam war, sry

[@hossamafndina-wx8mq]

What I like about your content is that you are a reader of Egyptian 🇪🇬history, but there is some information that must be corrected, which is that Egypt🇪🇬 in the 1973 war aimed to destroy the impregnable Bar-Lev line, destroy the myth of invincible Israel🇮🇱, recover about 15 km lost from Sinai, and not restore Sinai completely, because the capabilities of the Egyptian army 🇪🇬at that time only allowed the recovery of a small part of Sinai, because of the defeat in the 1967 war. The 1973 war ended with Egypt 🇪🇬achieving its goal and Egypt was able to impose a new political situation, and thus Egypt🇪🇬 won politically and militarily in that war and that improved its position in negotiating to restore the entire Sinai in the aftermath

[@TheAltair716]

Nasser was an amazing man, it's a shame rhat his policies weren't continued after his death.

[@zombieat]

no he was not. he did not care much about egypt as much as he cared about his panarab dream. itself a recreation of a caliphate but nationalistically arab? as evidenced by his adventurism in yemen, syria and algeria.

[@18carlox32]

He ain't dude

[@user-fz3gz5ck4v]

He was a dictator

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

He empowered a corrupt military establishment.

[@redaissami9380]

Do When Egypt was a democracy The video would be 0seconds long

[@iskanderaga-ali3353]

Under Roman empire, at least it was closest it ever got

[@yasien3]

It was for a short time after the 25th Revolution but the deab state with outside help managed to bring it back in line.

[@yasien3]

When the current Dictator goes there will be another chance hopefully

[@redaissami9380]

@@yasien3 sorry to tell u, democracy doesnt work in arab and african states, its either monarchies or dictatorships that can provide for the people

[@yasien3]

@@redaissami9380 that's nonsense nothing is impossible, It just needs the right circumstances timing and time. In the French revolution the European monarchies actively pushed against it and even fought out right wars to restore the monarchy in France Like that the golf monarchies scared that the (Arab spring) wave could reach them(as it happend in Bahrain) they with Israeli and US help retored the dictatorship. It doesn't work with a switch it needs time and failures to gain experience for it to work.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Any time a country claims to follow "anti-imperialism" it almost always usually means that they have a lot of ideological embassiles who praise them despite the fact that they engage in imperialism of their own.

[@cartoonnootrac]

I've been to Egypt in 1994 at that time I saw poverty everywhere, lots of beggars and yellow soil. Even the airport was pathatic

[@warcriminal3414]

we have beggars but not as much as the US of A

[@zombieat]

@@warcriminal3414 source?

[@elemperadordemexico]

@@warcriminal3414 cope

[@warcriminal3414]

@@elemperadordemexico why I should be coping that the US has more beggars than Egypt?!

[@HikmaHistory]

Could Egypt have sustained its status as the leading Arab state? Or was Nasser's idealism always doomed to fail? Making of the Modern Middle East Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLiPhmAD3I2JxEOPIea4qqAwOdn3axtWRf

[@ntluck1592]

Nasser's problem is he was too heavy handed with the wealthy elites who ended up immigrating with their wealth and expertise and now Egypt in the 50s had a huge deficiency in skilled workers. From having some of the most successful business men and a budding nuclear problem, Nasser inadvertently alienated those key figures from Egypt. What good is giving all these farmlands to poor illiterate common folk who heavily relied on wealthy land owners to manage those farmlands? The result is a massive immigration from the rural countryside to the heavily populated urbanized centers

[@GoogleUserOne]

If you look at every eastern society since Roman times: doesn’t look good

[@McVaySwifty]

He was too good to be true :(

[@HikmaHistory]

@@McVaySwifty He was a half-decent lad

[@HikmaHistory]

@@GoogleUserOne Bit of an exaggeration, no?

[@AFGeezy]

Good soup

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks!

[@Saykeh]

Nasser 😍🤩😘

[@elemperadordemexico]

@tarek based

[@user-fz3gz5ck4v]

He was a dictator

[@Merle1987]

They got whupped. Repeatedly.

[@bowlerfamily]

The Egyptians left black and came back Arabs. How that happen?

[@persiangulfnewsofiran7634]

These nations are ancient civilizations of the world not Arabs.

[@Simonferocious1]

You are delusional

[@ekesandras1481]

Ethnically the Egypitians are not even Arabs. They just speak Arabic, because they were conquered by some camel riding bedouins from what is now Saudi Arabia.

[@Full2635]

Many arabs settled In Egypt when they were conquered. They are most likely ethnically arabs, at least mixed

[@djehuti5571]

@Channel yes but the vast majority of egyptians are not tribal arabs

[@djehuti5571]

@Channel i agree yasta The arguments about whose ethnicity is the majority is dumb anyway But now we have to embrace our egyptian identity because the afro americans claim themselves as the real egyptians

[@Full2635]

@Channel y’all look the same to me so who cares

[@zombieat]

@@Full2635 you don't know egyptians nor arabs then. because i could tell them apart 1,000 times out of 1,000. edit: lets say 99 times out of 100 to be realistic.

[@beacebrocess]

0:42 I’m glad you don’t recognize Egypt’s dialect too. I also think it’s stupid

[@thanos7715]

whats stupid about it, every region has its dialect influenced by the pre-arab language.

[@cabdicano8698]

When Egypt demanded Sudan be its colony 😂😂 because they are black

[@persiangulfnewsofiran7634]

Now Egypt serves Saudi Arabia

[@mryuk1621]

if someone gives you more than 50 bn dollars worth of oil for free in your need time and you don't give anything back you are worse than a pig then

[@itsblitz4437]

Egypt 🇪🇬 used to be the leader of the Arab world now it is Saudi 🇸🇦 Arabia who leads it.

[@persiangulfnewsofiran7634]

Egypt is not Arab like Syria, Iraq and etc.

[@nizarshawwa3704]

What makes you think they're not Arab?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Arabized Copts led Arabs :d

[@warcriminal3414]

an Arab is who ever speak Arabic as his mother tongue who don't speak Arabic as his mother tongue is called Ajam it's a classical rule being an Arab was never about genetics or skin color also Copts are not pure Egyptians as they like to claim to be they are Greek mixed with Egyptian genetics that is why most of them are whiter in skin color with south European features while Arabs are in all shapes and colors because it's never about genetics it's a linguistic ethnicity after looking at your channel I assume you are Azerbaijani which this is funny coming from you because I could call you a "Turkified Iranian"

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@warcriminal3414 Being Arab is about belonging to a particular Arabic tribal confederation. If anyone claimed to be an Arab is not from an Arabic tribe, that means he/she is Arabized.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@warcriminal3414 Language is not the only factor that determines ethnicity. Should we call Irish people Germanic cause they don’t know their own Celtic language?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@warcriminal3414 The Hellenes were never the majority in Egypt, they were just the ruling class during the Hellenistic era.

[@DotRD12]

Nobody has had any issue calling Egyptians Arabs for the better part of 1500 years, so why should we start now all of a sudden?

[@Arabsummer]

[@witz08]

Nasser is like a role model towards me mainly due to his speech on nationalising the Suez canal company skip to 0.35 for speech kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6WUiZSeZtaFZ5Y

[@arthas640]

Serious question: but did nationalizing the Suez Canal benefit the Egyptian people more than it cost them? True it gave them control of the canal but that also meant they had to handle all the maintenance and such themselves and it also created cause for concern outside Egypt over the possibility of the canal being used as a political weapon which is painting a target on Egypt's back and it lead to the UN occupying the canal. I know the canal brings in tons of revenue, but I honestly dont have a clue if that money benefits the people of Egypt or if it just goes to the government without the common man seeing any of it.