Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub Infrastructures of Solidarity and the 1957 Cairo Conference

• Published in: Journal of world history Vol. 30; no. 1/2; pp. 157 - 192
• Main Author: ABOU-EL-FADL, REEM
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.06.2019; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: Activists; Asian cultural groups; Aspiration; Cold War; Colonization; Conferences; Decolonization; Developing countries; Equality; Foreign policy; Founding; Geography; Infrastructure; Infrastructure (Economics); LDCs; Peace; Political activism; Sadat, Anwar; Self determination; Social cohesion; Transnationalism; Middle East; China; Palestinian Territories; Egypt; South Africa; United Kingdom; Algeria; Indonesia; India; Cairo Egypt; Asia; Africa

Despite the recent scholarly recuperation of decolonization struggles, Egyptian contributions to the history of Afro-Asian solidarity remain understudied. Instead, scholarship on Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt has focused on high politics at the Arab regional scale. This article examines the building of...