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| 1928 |
| | | Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition | |
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| 1936 |
| | | On the death of his father, Fuad I, the 16-year-old Farouk becomes king of Egypt | |
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| 1936 |
| | | A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War | |
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| 1940 July 3 |
| | | British warships bombard the French fleet in harbour at Mers-el-Kébir, in Algeria, killing more than 1250 sailors | |
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| 1941 January 22 |
| | | Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk | |
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| 1941 February 3 |
| | | Adolf Hitler sends Erwin Rommel to save the Italians from looming disaster in north Africa | |
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| 1941 July |
| | | Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East | |
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