Witness to the Era: Egypt in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Egypt was the true crossroads in which all the forces of the time met. Since the expedition of Napoleon. Bonaparte in 1798 to the present day, it has always been the privileged place where wills, ideas and stakes clash. Atmosphere of tension due to three main factors: the. disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and Mustafa’s coup de force. Kamal Atatürk; the pervasive penetration of Western ideas into Egyptian society; and finally the different reactions of the. Egyptians themselves, shared between the Western model,. attachment to Islamic values and the desire to reactivate the. national heritage (thurat).