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

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Tsourapas, Gerasimos·2016·British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
DOI 10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708

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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 This article relies primarily on newly declassified material from the British Foreign Office archives, unpublished reports from the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and an analysis of related articles in three main Egyptian newspapers (al-Ahram, al-Akhbar, al-Jumhuriya) in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 detailed reconstruction of regional migration’s importance for Egyptian foreign policy. It debunks the conventional wisdom that Egyptian migration became a socio-political issue only in the post-1973 era, arguing that the Nasserite regime developed a governmental policy that allowed, and encouraged, Egyptians’ political activism in Libya, Syria, Yemen, and the Persian Gulf according to state foreign policy priorities in the 1952-1967 period. By presenting a cache of archival material in analytical and critical context, this article offers concrete evidence of how migration buttressed Egypt’s regional ambitions under Gamal Abdel Nasser.

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  • Semi-authoritarian states may use their emigrants to achieve foreign policy goals or national prestige, or as a way of projecting state power and gaining regional advantage.

    “Semi-authoritarian states may also use their emigrants to achieve foreign policy goals or national prestige, or as a way of projecting state power and gaining regional advantage (Tsourapas 2016).”

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Authors
Tsourapas, G.
Affiliations
University of London (GB)
Corresponding author
Tsourapas, Gerasimos
ORCID
Tsourapas, Gerasimos
Venue
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2016-01-04
Volume
43
Issue
3
Pages
324-341
ISSN
  • 1353-0194 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-3542
DOI
10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708
OpenAlex
W2260336268
Cited by
60
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0
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
FWCI
18.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Center for International and Regional Studies (Georgetown University) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
  • SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Keywords
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian foreign policy, regional migration, student migration, political activism, Arab nationalism, Egypt–Libya relations, Persian Gulf

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