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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Before and after in Middle East

Before: October 29, 1956: Suez Crisis
After: June 5, 1967: Six-Day War

Before and after in Politics

Before: September 25, 1957: Little Rock Nine
After: January 1, 1959: Castro takes Havana

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: United Arab Republic