1958 - Mamluqi

The Nasserists mocked them. Called them "Mamaliq" (plural of Mamluk)—slaves to the old order, slave to the West, slaves to their own ancestral paranoia.

Here’s the logic:

Let’s dig beneath the sand. To understand the phrase, we must break it into its two warring components: Mamluqi and 1958 . The Mamluq: Slave Kings of the Desert The Mamluks were not a dynasty in the traditional sense. They were slave-soldiers—mostly Turkic, Circassian, and Georgian boys torn from their families, converted to Islam, and trained as the most elite fighting force the medieval world had ever seen. In 1250, they turned on their own Ayyubid masters and seized Egypt and Syria. mamluqi 1958

But within the officer corps, there was a shadow faction. These were not young, radical, Nasserist colonels. These were older officers—Circassian and Turkish-descended men from the old Ottoman-Mamluk families of the Levant. Their families had served as military slaves for empires for centuries: first the Mamluks, then the Ottomans, then the French Mandate, then the Lebanese Republic. The Nasserists mocked them