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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 NasserNasser nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–70), President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, who nationalised the Suez Canal, championed pan-Arab nationalism, and became the most charismatic and influential Arab leader of the twentieth century. His political legacy is inseparable from the 1967 military catastrophe that destroyed the pan-Arab project he embodied. Nasser came to power through the 1952 Free Officers’ coup that overthrew King Farouk,…