Table of contents for Rethinking Nasserism : revolution and historical memory in modern Egypt / edited by Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler.

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List of Tables vii
List of Figures viii
Foreword by Gabriel Ben-Dor ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii

Introduction: Nasserism as a Form of Populism 1
   Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler

Part I. Images of Nasserism
1. Gamal 'Abd al-Nasser: Iconology, Ideology, and Demonology 45
   Leonard Binder
2. Demonizing the Other: Israeli Perceptions of Nasser and Nasserism 72
   Elie Podeh
3. History, Politics, and Collective Memory: The Nasserist Legacy in
   Mubarak's Egypt 100
   Meir Hatina

Part II. Political and Social Aspects of Nasserism
4. Nasserism's Legal Legacy: Accessibility, Accountability, and
   Authoritarianism 127
   Nathan , Rrown
5. Sports, Society, and Revolution: Egypt in the Early Nasserite Period 144
   Yoav Di-Capua
6. Nasserist and Post-Nasserist Elites in an Official Biographical
   Lexicon 163
   Uri M. Kupferschmidt

Part III. Nasser's Foreign Policy
7. 'Abd al-Nasser's Regional Politics: A Reassessment 179
   Avraham Sela






8. 'Abd al-Nasser and the United States: Enemy or Friend? 205
    David W. Lesch
9. Nasser and the Soviets: A Reassessment 230
    Rami Ginat

Part IV. Nasser's Socioeconomic Policies and Achievements
10. An Assessment of Egypt's Development Strategy, 1952-1970 253
    M. Riad El-Ghonemy
11. Nasser's Egypt and Park's Korea: A Comparison of Their Economic
    Achievements 264
    Paul Rivlin
12. Nasser's Family Planning Policy in Perspective 282
    Gad G. Gilbar and Onn Winckler

Part V. Cultural Aspects of Nasserism
13. The Nightingale and the Ra'is: 'Abd al-Halim Hafiz and Nasserist
    Longings 307
    Joel Gordon
 14. Nasser and Nasserism as Perceived in Modern Egyptian Literature
    through Allusions to Songs 324
    Gabriel M. Rosenbaum

 Selected Bibliography 343
 List of Contributors 355
 Index 359