Kai Bird : Le problème est que les gens Bird grew up in Egypt under Nasser , who envisioned secular path to modernity . The fact is that the Egypt of my adolescence in the 1960s was a more democratic and secular society than today . He says Nasser 's defeat in June 1967 war was a shock to Arab ethos , end to his dream . Bird : Jihadists have nothing to offer but a desperate alternative to dictatorships .
Kai Bird : Le problème est que les gens Bird grew up in Egypt under Nasser , who envisioned secular path to modernity . He says Nasser 's defeat in June 1967 war was a shock to Arab ethos , end to his dream . Bird : Jihadists have nothing to offer but a desperate alternative to dictatorships .