ABSTRACT
Thus presented, the act of the army which, during the night of July 22-23, brought about the fall of the Egyptian monarchy, looked more like an ‘Inkilab’ (literally: an upsetting) than a revolution inspired by a clear clash of ideologies. Moreover, this Inkilab, to judge by the declarations of the men who took over the tasks of govern-
ment, might have been thought to belong to the series of crises that shook the Arab world in consequence of the war in Palestine, which aroused spectacular commotions in the surrounding countries. Seen from that angle, the Syrian Inkilab of March, 1949, cannot but be related to the Egyptian event of three years later which it foreshadowed. Both were directly caused by the Arab defeat in Palestine and the discredit into which it plunged the existing Arab governments which were held responsible for it.
