Holy shit this page is gonna be long. HISTORY REHAUL.
Last Updated: March 29, 2010
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- Province of the Roman Empire
- Arab conquest
- Goddamn Mamluks
- Goddamn Ottoman Empire
- lol nice try Napoleon
- Back to Sadiq's house we go!
- British occupation...!!
- FUCK YEAH REPUBLIC
- Gets his ass kicked by Israel in '67
- Given the Silent Treatment by Arab neighbors after the Camp David Accords
- Arab neighbors stop being douchebags and let him back in the club
- MUBARAAAK щ(゚Д゚щ)
- 1967 → Egypt gets his ass kicked in the Six-Day War against Israel. Main allies: Jordan and Syria. Air force decimated. Sinai Peninsula lost.
- 1972 → Sadat ordered all Soviet personnel training and supporting the army to leave Egypt, and they took all their shiny toys and equipment back with them. America didn't offer any help since they kicked out the DIRTY COMMIES, so much for that. Egypt spent the rest of the year mending relations so that Russia would come back and supply weapons.
- 1973 → October War, Oct 6-26. Main ally: Syria. Surprise attack against Israel on the holiest day of the Hebrew calendar (Yom Kippur) resulted in major pwnage, breaking the stalemate as well as the myth of Israeli invincibility. The United Nations later ordered a ceasefire, which Israel ignored for several days and got payback by surrounding Egypt's Third Army. Asshole. Tactical victory for Israel, political for Egypt. Didn't regain the Sinai Peninsula, but he got as far as the east bank of the Suez Canal and demonstrated he was catching up with Israel in terms of technology and military might.
- 1984 → All types of political parties (sans religious) are given the right to assembly.
- 2005 → Mubarak re-elected for his 5th term in office while his opposition, Ayman Nour, received a 5-year jail sentence.
- 2008 → Emergency law, which allows detention without charge and search without warrant, to be extended for another two years. Mubarak had promised it would be lifted in '08.
Culture & Etc.
- 1977 → Egyptian Bread Riots (January 18-19) throughout most major cities. Caused by Sadat announcing subsidies on food would be terminated, thereby raising prices that lower class people had a hard time meeting already. ~800 killed. Protests only ended when the military was deployed.
- 1992 → 5.9mag earthquake hits close to Cairo. 370 killed, 3.3k injured. Government response was poor and full of empty promises, spurring the people to hold a massive public demonstration.
- 1992-97 → Terrorism in Egypt aimed primarily at foreigners. The main idea was if you could scare away the tourists, you would bankrupt the government and force change. ...Didn't really work. Terrorist groups ended up antagonizing a large part of the population whose livelihood depended on the tourism industry.
- 1997: Luxor Massacre at the Temple of Hatshepsut instigated by anti-government Islamist terrorists. Tourists were systematically shot, then chopped to pieces, killing a total of 59. Egyptian tourist industry suffered a major blow from the incident and sunk even lower after future terrorist attacks (such as 9/11 in America).
- 2004-05 → Terrorism in the Red Sea area aimed at Israeli tourists, though other nationalities were also killed.
☼ Egypt's Bosses in a Nutshell
Muhammad Naguib
June 18, 1953 - 14 November 1954
DUDE I BARELY KNOW YOU.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
23 June 1956 - 28 September 1970
+ Bloodless coup over King Farouk's monarchy.
+ Modernization and socialist reform.
+ Blah blah blah.
- Blah blah?
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat
15 October 1970 - 6 October 1981
Hell yeah open-door policy (Infitah) or some shit like that. /PUTS ON SHADES
Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak
14 October 1981 - Present
INERTIA INERTIA INERTIA
+ Press more liberal. Opposition papers flourishing (so long as they don't criticize too much).
- Extremely low voter turnout and approval ratings (despite media claims). Disaffection with / alienation from Mubarak regime.
- Holy shit man, you can remove the emergency law anytime now.
- He has to have done a few good things.
- Really...?
Sources Used
- A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present (2007), Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
- Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008), John R. Bradley
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