The Arab Cold War (Arabic: الحرب العربية الباردة ‎ al-Harb al-`Arabbiyah al-bārdah ) was a series of conflicts in the Arab world between the new republics led by Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and espousing Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, and Pan-Arabism, and the more traditionalist kingdoms led by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.