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Low-level conflict had persisted on the Syrian border since 1949, the creation of three De-Militarized Zones of immense strategic and economic important had ironically provoked small-scale outbreaks of violence, in particular the DMZ along the Sea of Galilee proved to be of particular interest...

Hello! With a POD no earlier than 509 BCE (the foundation of the republic), make Rome "focus" more on the east! I.e., make Rome's expansion focus shift more towards the east than IOTL. The Romans are still able to conquer western regions such as Gaul and Iberia, but the focus should not be on...

According to The Suez Canal: Its History and Diplomatic Importance, in 1566, under the leadership of Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, surveys were conducted around the lakes of the Sinai-Suez region to construct a canal through which warships could be towed from the Med into the Red Sea easily...

What if Ottomans collapsed in Great Turkish war of 17th century. Louis XIV doesn't intervene and start the nine years war and Holy league takes Constantinople and with the largest sources of troops i.e., Europe gone and local governors declare independence who will takes which province ? will...

Inspired by this thread, which asks what would've happened if an early attempt on Nasser's life succeeded, I thought I might as well take an opposing tack and ask what would happen if Nasser lived another 20 years, making it to 72 before dying in 1990. To be sure, this isn't particularly...

How feasible is it for an independent Coptic Egypt to have its rulers call themselves Pharaoh and style themselves as a new dynasty? I imagine it wouldn't be easy due to the affiliation with paganism.

Love him or hate him, nobody can deny that Gamal Abdel Nasser was one of the most significant political figures of the modern Middle East. But in history, few things are truly inevitable. In 1954, as Nasser gave a speech in Alexandria to celebrate the British withdrawal from the Suez Canal Zone...

No empire remains powerful forever. Even if the Byzantines survived the Turkish invasions, it was likely that something would go wrong eventually. Even so, any empire that manages to last longer than they were supposed to will create massive changes to the future. If the Byzantines manage to...

In 1908, a social reformer and lawyer named Omar Loufti, was looking through the life of Egyptians, and he was troubled by the fact that many Egyptians are suffering in poverty and indignity. The indigenous Egyptians, those who worked under landlords, aristocrats, gentry, foreign military...

With a POD after 1900 what conditions have to be met for there to be a popular and enduring nationalist movement amongst the Copts of Egypt? Would it be possible, this late in history, to carve out a Coptic state in southern Egypt?

Can Richard the Lionheart conquer egypt to support holy land by completely destroying saladin and his army if yes will take for himself ?

Can Frederick Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart Philip Augustus conquer egypt to support holy land if yes the how will they partition their conquests

What if Byzantines reconquer Syria and Egypt by allying with other Arabs against Umayyads during First and second fitna and supporting christian rebellions in the caliphate how would islam develop without ummayads and abbasids ? will this avoid twenty year anarchy?

Assume here that the Egyptian revolution in 1952 was carried out by the Communists in Egypt And they managed to control it What will the Middle East look like if this happens?Especially with full Soviet support for communist Egypt The success of Egypt's nuclear program with the support of the...

Was there any chance of any of the Sudanese sultanates (possibly the Funj) conquering Egypt like the Nubians did thousands of years ago? If successful, what effect would that have on the history of both countries up to the 20th century?

Let's say that in a no-Islam scenario, the Arabs unite under Nestorianism instead and still go through a period of conquest. While Nestorianism could spread to most places with little problem, would they have that same success in Egypt? Can Nestorianism become the religion of majority as Islam...

The Bronze Age collapse, while undoubtedly quite a dark era in terms of written source material, is not as mysterious as popular culture and the mass media makes it out to be. On one of the few written records that shed light on what happened, a monumental inscription of pharaoh Merneptah, known...

Could the Romans ever Reconquer Egypt after they lost it to the Arabs , during or after the Macedonian Dynasty ?

According to former Vice President of Egypt, Abdel-Latif Al-Boghdadi, Nasser initially supported a federal union for the United Arab Republic. However the threat of a Communist takeover prompted him to support a total union under strict measures. Such measures such as the outlaw of all political...

With a post-WW2 POD, have Egypt become an Islamic Republic in the same manner as Iran in 1979.