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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 Nasser, Egypt’s thirty-seven-year-old prime minister. Barely three years after seizing power in Cairo, Nasser was already emerging as the defining voice of Arab nationalism. The Bandung Conference gave him a platform to link the Arab struggle against imperialism with the broader Afro-Asian movement. The Bandung Conference, hosted by Indonesia’s President Sukarno, was the first large-scale gathering of postcolonial leaders from Asia and Africa. Its aim…