Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Witness to War and Peace (eBook, ePUB)

Egypt, the October War, and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the Egyptian embassy in Cyprus before later going on to become permanent representative to the United Nations and eventually, Egypt's minister of foreign affairs under Hosni Mubarak. In this fascinating memoir, Aboul Gheit looks back on the 1973 October War and the diplomatic efforts that followed it, revealing the secrets of his long career for the first time. In vivid detail he describes the deliberations of Egypt's political leadership in the run-up to the war, including the process of articulating Egypt's war aims, the secret communications between President Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the role of the Soviet Union during the war, and the unfolding of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He then gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the arduous process of peacemaking that followed, covering the 1973 Geneva Conference, the 1977 Mena House Conference, Sadat's visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. From Sadat's impassioned address to his cabinet on the eve of the war to delegations ripping out the wiring at their respective hotels, from Jimmy Carter cycling through the bungalows at Camp David to Yitzhak Shamir's blunt admissions to his Arab counterparts in the 1991 Madrid conference, Aboul Gheit offers an information-packed, first-person account of a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617978944
• Artikelnr.: 56515021

Autorenporträt

Ahmed Aboul Gheit was born in Cairo in 1942. He joined the Egyptian diplomatic corps in 1965, serving in Egypt's embassies in Cyprus (1968-72) and the Soviet Union (1979-82), as Egypt's ambassador to Italy (1992-96), and as Egypt's permanent representative to the United Nations (1999-2004). In 2004, he was appointed by Hosni Mubarak as Egypt's minister of foreign affairs, a post he held until 2011. He was elected secretary general of the Arab League in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Witness to War
1 Silent War, Secret War: 1968-73
2 Twenty-Four Decisive Hours in My Life with Hafiz Ismail
3 Egypt and the October Victory
4 American Assessments of the Situation
5 The Battle Approaches
6 The October War: Military and Diplomatic Efforts, Coordinated
7 Accepting the Ceasefire
8 The War's Final Week
9 The Post-Resolution 338 Crisis
10 Attempts to Extricate the Third Army
11 Kissinger and Reaping the Rewards
12 Back to the Decision to Go to War
13 The War's Objectives and Outcomes
Part Two: Witness to Peace
14 Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem
15 The Mena House Conference
16 The Ismailiya Summit
17 The Political Committee and the Visit to Jerusalem
18 Israel's Arrogance
19 Attempts to Advance the Negotiations
20 Camp David I
21 Building Political Consensus Toward a Settlement
22 Leeds Castle
23 The Road to Camp David
24 Camp David II
25 The Egyptian and Palestinian Paths
26 The Madrid Conference
27 The Invasion of Kuwait, the Destruction of Iraq, and the Road to Madrid
28 Peace Talks Begin along All Paths
29 Oslo, Camp David, and Resolution 1515
30 Conclusion
Index