The Suez Crisis, also called the Second Arab Israeli War and the Tripartite Aggression, was an invasion of Israel and later the United Kingdom (UK) and France with the aim of regaining the Suez Canal which the Egyptian President at the time, Jamal Abdel Nasser, had nationalized. Political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations eventually led to a withdrawal of the invaders. This event clearly showed the degrading power of the UK and France in the world order. Following the crisis, many Egyptian Jews moved out of Egypt after Nasser arrested supposed sympathizers of Israel and stripped them of Egypt citizenship (note).
- Ibrāhīm ʿAbd al-Majīd (1946-, Egypt) – Ṭuyūr al-ʿAnbar (2000, English trans. Birds of Amber, 2005). This novel, which is the second part of the author’s trilogy on Alexandria, depicts the daily life of Egyptians during the 1956 Suez War when thousands of foreign denizens, such as Greeks and Italians, evacuated the city which immensely changed its cosmopolitan character. Combining history and fiction in a multi-layered story, it depicts citizens from different fields of work, such as railroad workers, merchants, and a filmmaker as they navigate both through the war and the city’s rich historical legacy (also in C: Cities: Egypt: Alexandria).
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