Half a hundred bigwigs of Egypt's Wafd Party sat around the highceilinged, marble-floored reception room in the ornate mansion of their boss, Mustafa el Nahas, sipped Turkish coffee and waited. Inside the library, old Nahas and the party's other top bosses were trying to decide whether to bow down to Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib or to defy him. Their decision might affect the fate of Naguib's well-intentioned, energetic reform movement, and the future of Egypt.
"Zeezee" & "Safsaf." The Wafd was once the greatest political force in Egypt with a wide following among the...
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