Introduction: The Arab World Meets Bandung In April 1955, as the leaders of twenty-nine newly independent states gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, one figure stood out among the delegates from the Arab world — Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s thirty-seven-year-old prime minister.  Barely three years after seizing power in Cairo, Nasser was already emerging as the defining … Continue reading Bandung and the Arab World: Nasser, Pan-Arabism, and the Global South