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SEARCH FOR DESTINY - THE MIDDLE EAST
HISTORY CHANNEL / BRITISH MOVIETONE TELEVISION 2001

Part 3
The post World War II period saw the struggle of Middle Eastern peoples to throw off British hegemony in the area. In Iran Mossadegh nationalized the Iran oilfields, but was forced out of power by the CIA. In Egypt Nasser took power from the corrupt King Farouk and became the apostle of a new sense of Arab identity. He sought to modernize Egypt, and with powerful American support drove the British and French from their control of the Suez Canal, a turning point which exhilarated the Arab world.