Conclusion

So said Muhammad Lutfi Goma’a in 1932; and the experience of World War II did little to change his view. Most Egyptians shared this view on some level, they recognized that it was not just their own political and aspirations that were being thwarted—and that it was not only the British Empire that benefitted from the current world system. For this reason, transnational cooperation against those who ruled the world was part and parcel of their nationalism. That so much of this vision has been mislabeled or marginalized in the story of the twentieth century indeed confirms the fear of those from Krishnavarma and Farid, to ‘Abd al-Hamid Sa’id and Dr. Ansari, to Nehru and al-Nahhas—and then perhaps Nasser, that the only way their people would be more than secondary characters in the story of the world would be to rewrite the rules. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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