Some will interpret that media, political,
intellectual, cultural and also sentimental momentum accompanying celebration
of the birth centenary of leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser saying it’s ill nostalgia
and that it’s a degree of political salafism that is not less worse than
religious salafism. Also, that it’s a manifestation of a multi-faceted complication
inflicting on Egyptians making them slaves to past experiments that were not void
of failure and defeat despite all their achievements, and that this complication
will not end unless we have total disconnection to the intellectual and
political foundations related to that experiment.
I also do think that such tackling of the event will
turn into a vicious attacking campaign in which all political ammunition of
doubting, belittling, and maybe bad language will be used, as there are some
who definitely went appalled of this rebirth of the man whom they considered a
nightmare to them, and before them, to their fathers and folks. What makes them
that appalled is that they spared no money, effort, conspiracy, false accusation
or fallacy to assassinate the character, ideology, method and reputation of
Nasser after he physically left our world almost half a century ago.
Usually, those appalled some do not possess the
intellectual or linguistic capacity to produce the media content needed to
fulfill the tasks I mentioned at the beginning of those lines. Therefore, they
will pay for the pens and names that will do this mission. Such agreement
between these two groups is more like Nikah mu’tah or “pleasure marriage”;
meaning a mission with a legitimate cover based on offer and acceptance, as
both parties have common interests in such mission, and because some pens
realize that marketing what they write is connected to the consent and cooperation
have revenge upon July 1952 revolution and Nasser.
The more vicious the attack over July revolution and
Nasser, the more the reward, even if they produced nothing new as all that may
come to the imagination of that bunch of attack, grounds of conviction and
accusations for July revolution, Nasser, Arab-nationalism and liberation have
already been said in writings, seminars, conferences, radio and TV stations
since the mid-seventies until few weeks ago when we read a column for a writer
in one of the private newspapers – whom I described recently as of unknown social
and intellectual descent – attacking Nasser because Dr. Huda Abdel-Nasser
commented over some of what was written in Amr Moussa’s memoirs!!
In my opinion, there are others required to present a
different tackling for such intellectual and media momentum accompanying this
centenary; a tackling aiming at filling the gaps between the lessons learnt
from the Nasserist experiment on all political, economic, social and
intellectual levels and necessities of the reality and future in Egypt and the
Arab nation. As the principles upon which July experiment and Nasser’s ideology
and vision were based still exist and it’s likely that they will continue for a
long time for the strategic, historical, geo-political and geographical reality
that yielded such principles still exists and did not change… not to mention that
the challenges that came to exist since conflict between international powers
of national liberation, and colonization powers were defined still are present
on the ground, even if their priorities and some of their features changed. What
affirms such thing is that the imperialist colonization powers including the
Zionist state did not change their vision or strategies since long time.
For those who underestimate such thing, I hope they can
see the behavior of the American administration, especially the American
president; the legitimate representative of the policies and changes of his
administration and who did not cease to practice a highly significant media and
political discourse giving evidence how the superior colonization mentality
still exists. Therefore, the challenges that we faced during our national history
still exist, even if some claimed that time changed and we can no longer manage
Egypt’s international relations using old loud-voice policy.
Moreover, Egypt’s relation to the African continent
and to the East; India, China and Eastern Asia, also Russia, and its relation
to international communities in South America are still open and more
compelling issues. It’s not a coincidence that Egypt during the Nasserist
regime had very strong relations with Africa, mid-eastern Asia and South
America. Unfortunately, during the time period of post-October 1973 until the
end of Mubarak’s era, such role of Egypt shrank and other rival ones replaced
it, atop of them is the Zionist Israeli role that did not miss the chance and had
significant existence in African countries and has growing relations with India
and China, after those countries and nations were once proud of their strong
relations with Nasser’s Egypt.
Realizing this and witnessing that intellectual and
media momentum accompanying birth centenary of Nasser, I believe getting busy
in tackling the future is the right thing to do.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in
Al Ahram newspaper on January 18, 2018.
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