Al-Ahram Weekly

50 YEARS SINCE THE SUEZ WAR

Today, 50 years will have passed since Anglo-French warships were moving on Suez to complete the last phase of a war intended to reshape the Arab world. The fiasco that the Suez War turned out to be was a political victory for Egypt and the Arab nation. Al-Ahram Weekly commemorates an event that was to shake the world and revolutionise the region

Nasser in Al-Azhar Mosque telling Egyptians there would be no surrender

Nasser surrounded by jubliant masses in Port Said after British and French troops completed withdrawal fron the Canal Zone

Nasser announcing the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in Alexandria on 26 July 1956

Egypt is the issue

By Gamal Abdel-Nasser

A moment of revelation

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal tells Al-Ahram Weekly how decades after nationalising the Canal and going to war over it, Egyptians have finally re-appropriated Suez

Warships moving on Suez

What lessons now?

Fifty years on, four main lessons may be learned from the events surrounding the Suez crisis, writes Roger Owen

Timeline

Collusion: the Sèvres Protocol

Suez and the end of the 200 years war

The nationalisation of the Suez Canal marked the end of a 200 years war, one that aimed to subjugate Egypt and keep it under permanent colonial control, writes Hossam Issa

Egypt 1956, Lebanon 2006

The 50th anniversary of the Suez aggression falls only months after Israel's recent attacks on Lebanon. What connections can be drawn between the two events, asks Hassan Nafaa

From Suez... to Baghdad

Galal Amin charts the course of history from the Canal nationalisation of 1956 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and reveals some startling similarities

The July culture project

Salah Issa reviews the July Revolution's achievement in the years separating the 1956 victory at Suez from the 1967 Suez defeat

The autumn of pan-Arabism

Ahmed El-Moslemany explains the meaning of the slow death throes of a half century of pan-Arabism. Yet are the reforms that will replace it any better?

Resistance revisited

At the Suez War's most active site, Amirah Ibrahim seeks out eyewitnesses, reviewing the Tripartite military plans and a project for demanding compensation

Preludes

In Gaza, an unlikely eyewitness refreshes Dina Ezzat 's memory about one largely forgotten clue to the Tripartite Aggression: the Palestinian cause