Modern Era · Middle East · Politics
1958
United Arab Republic formed
February 1, 1958
Egypt and Syria, riding the wave of Arab nationalism, merged into a single state called the United Arab Republic under Gamal Abdel Nasser. The union was supposed to be the seed of a pan-Arab state stretching from Morocco to Iraq. It fell apart after three years when Syrian officers staged a coup. Pan-Arabism never quite recovered.
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