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Fawaz Gerges

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

Fawaz Gerges

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

12:00pm

1 hour

Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

£7 - £12.50

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World-leading authority on the Middle East Professor Fawaz Gerges explains how the Middle East has been shaped by the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists.

Gerges says the Egyptian military’s overthrow in 2013 of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, echoed an older rift in Egypt and the Middle East – the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Nasser. Gerges says this split between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region since the 1920s. And he explores the divide through the lives of Nasser and another influential figure, Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of many branches of radical political Islam.

Gerges is a Lebanese-American academic and professor of Middle East politics and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World and Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?

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FT Weekend Title partner BBC World Service International radio partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner University of Oxford New College Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme Irish Embassy, London Supporters of the Irish programme MIT Press MIT Press. Sponsors of the programme of American literature and culture The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Princeton University Press British Academy Festival academic partner Ian and Carol Sellars Emily Rose and James Marrow Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture George Warren Mary and Cecil Quillen Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Hilda’s College 11th St Hilda's day at the festival St Cross College St Cross College: Festival college partner. All facilities generously donated to the festival The Feathers Hotel Woodstock Macdonald Bear Hotel Woodstock Critchleys HM Government of Gibraltar Festival green room sponsor Felicity Bryan Associates Conference Oxford Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Said Business School Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner The Oxford Times Regional media partner Oxford Brookes University Oxford University Images Oxford University Images The Sheldonian Theatre Floris of London City Audio Visual Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography OX magazine History of War All About History Glyndebourne Chamberlain Evans Estate agents Ironbridge Gorge Museums Foodbuy Chêne Bleu Frescobaldi Toscana Wines of Tuscany Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sloane Club Steer Oxford Botanic Garden Cinnamon Kitchen Compassion in World Farming The Wild Geese Nicholas Hunter Ltd