Nasser: The Arab Strongman Cometh
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Is Egypt in Decline?
Egypt has been a distinct geographical unit, a distinct nation, really, for over five thousand years. The first egyptian dynasty was founded in 31, 50 b c. So many dynasties,. all built along the banks of the nile, which is always shifting and turning as it winds its way through the desert. They always had to build new capitals, thebes, memphis, tanis, alexandria, fustat and of course, cairo. All of these capitals all up and down the nile river, the nile delta. And in fact, that history continues. Because right now, east of present day cairo, between it and the
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