Nasser’s Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967

@article{Tsourapas2016NassersEA,
  title={Nasser’s Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967},
  author={G. Tsourapas},
  journal={British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies},
  year={2016},
  volume={43},
  pages={324 - 341}
}
  • G. Tsourapas
  • Published 2016
  • History
  • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
The Egyptian state’s policy of dispatching trained Egyptian professionals, primarily educational staff, across the Arab world rarely features in analyses of Egypt’s foreign policy under Gamal Abdel Nasser. This article relies primarily on newly declassified material from the British Foreign Office archives, unpublished reports from the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and an analysis of related articles in three main Egyptian newspapers (al-Ahram, al-Akhbar, al-Jumhuriya) in order to provide a… Expand
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