Nationalism in Egypt and Jordan

What must be appreciated about the issue of nationalism in Egypt and Jordan in the modern period is that both countries' modern political history was shaped in significant part, not so much by persons programmatically identifying themselves as Egyptians--still less Jordanians--as by European powers whose colonial interests dominated the Middle East beginning in the 19th century. The so-called Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of 1898 governed Egyptian and Sudanese territory inherited from the disempowered Ottoman Empire, giving formal structure to a process of encroaching British influence that had begun in 1798. From the British and Ottoman point of view, Egypt and Sudan were more or less unitary, and from the 1880s onward the British Empire gradually used commercial concessions to acquire Egypt as a possession from the Ottomans. As an Ottoman province, Egypt had since 1822 invaded tribal territory below the Blue Nile (Viorst, 1995, p. 48). The British more or le

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arious respects a gradualist. For example, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1954 was opposed by indigenous Egyptian nationalists such as the Muslim Brotherhood as too accommodating of non-Egyptian entities. Further, Nasser's interest in affiliating Egyptian identity with pan-Arabism was lukewarm. Egyptian nationalism has been linked to the wider and parallel development of Arab (or pan-Arab) nationalism, particularly as arrayed against Israel after 1948. In that regard, Baker cites Egypt's affiliation with Syria to create the United Arab Republic in 1958, which Nasser dissolved in 1961 while announcing what he called the Arab Socialist Union, a symbol of Egypt's friendliness with the Soviet Union chiefly because the ASU came to nothing very much. Elsewhere in the Middle East, Egypt under Nasser found itself in relatively minor conflicts with Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Israel in the first decade of the 1960s, and its relations with the US became especially frosty after Egypt intervened in a civil war in Yemen (Baker, 1978). In the background of all of these phenomena, however, there is a perception of a strong and consistent thread of national self-interest: Egyptian involvement in the Arab nationalist movement in the 1950s was driven
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