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Arab News
March 24, 2018
In the Nasserite era, the Brotherhood migrated from Egypt after their attempt to overthrow the government. King Saud mediated with Gamal Abdel Nasser in the first Brotherhood crisis and had a relatively positive response. But the Brotherhood returned to their coup attempts and the confrontation resumed.
The Arab Weekly
March 24, 2018
In the 1960s and '70s, Saudi Arabia was more concerned with Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab nationalism than with Islamist radicalism. Thus, the Muslim Brotherhood wasn't much of a worry but the combination of the Brotherhood's political outlook and the rigid Salafi doctrine injected a virus into the SaudiÃâà...
India Today
March 23, 2018
Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukry said dialogue, not military intervention, is the only way to solve Kashmir imbroglio. He also said that Egypt looks to cement its trade, political and economic ties with India further. He is in India for the seventh session of the Egypt-India joint committee on bilateral relations.
Mmegi Online
March 23, 2018
Fatah Al-Sisi who has ruled Egypt with a brutal iron fist since 2014 has ensured that the legacy of former dictators in the mould of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak is kept intact. Except for Mahommed Morsi whose presidency has only lasted for a mere twelve months, Egypt has forÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 22, 2018
... history as a result, claiming that the 19th-century ruler Mohamed Ali was a “tyrannical pasha”, that the khedive Ismail was a “despotic profligate”, that the 20th-century nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul was a “provocative demagogue”, and that former president Gamal Abdel-Nasser was a “colonial dictator”.
The Economist
March 22, 2018
SINCE one in four Egyptian voters cannot read, political candidates pick symbols to identify themselves on the ballot. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the president, chose a star. It shines down from billboards across the country alongside his ubiquitous visage, smiling on a farm or peering through binoculars aboard aÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 15, 2018
It is also the documentation of an oral history of Egypt's foreigners, Jews and Communists; of the inhabitants of Cairo, the consecutive rules of Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat and of course of the latter's dramatic visit to Jerusalem and the subsequent peace process. Above all, it is a story told fromÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 14, 2018
He was the first composer to receive the State Merit Award during President Gamal Abdel Nasser's rule, and the first composer to receive an honorary doctorate from Academy of Arts during the rule of President Anwar El-Sadat, who also gave him the rank of Major General. A number of Arab monarchs andÃâà...
Arab News
March 14, 2018
The step also comes amid Egyptian efforts to enhance bilateral ties with African countries, he added. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has worked on strengthening ties with African states since 2014, similar to the time of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, when Egypt was strongly connected to itsÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 14, 2018
Selim clarified that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has worked on enhancing the bilateral relations with the African countries since 2014, as was the case during the rule of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Selim noted that the SCM was established for controlling the visual, audio, print and electronicÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 13, 2018
It is particularly odd because the strongman, benevolent or otherwise, does not have a good track record. In the 1950s and the 1960s, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Algeria's Houari Boumediene, and Syria's Hafez al-Assad came to power promising development, social reform, and national empowerment.
New York Times
March 13, 2018
The president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, awarded the dancers the Order of Merit. Even more meaningful to Ms. Saleh was the praise of a poor old man after a performance in the southern backwater of Aswan. “People had insisted that Egyptians wouldn't accept Egyptian ballet,” she recalled misty-eyed. “But weÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 12, 2018
The first reference is to the gated resort itself, built by the state shortly after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power in 1956. The second is “Maamoura's Victims,” a report written in 1955 by Hassan Jalal detailing the horrendous conditions and torture at a prisoner camp on the property of deposed King FaroukÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 1, 2018
The Nasser Military Academy, established under a 1965 presidential decree to provide high-ranking military officers with capacity building and training for higher posts, was inaugurated that year by President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hatem Zakaria, a member of the council, told Al-Monitor that one goal of theÃâà...
Egypttoday
December 31, 1999
CAIRO – 21 March 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said that there are no instructions to jail anyone who voices opposition or grievances towards the government. However, he added in an interview Tuesday that people should not spread feelings of hopelessness, claiming that it will eventually turn intoÃâà...
Egypt Independent
December 31, 1999
The exhibition will highlight the opening of the modern Suez Canal in 1869 and the nationalization of it in 1956 by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He added that the exhibition also will review Queen Hatshepsut's trip to Puntland during the ancient Egyptian civilization to highlight Egypt's connectionÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
A 1965 caricature shows Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidential candidacy referendum getting 99.99% support from voters. During his career, Sadek experienced threats, efforts at intimidation, warnings and muzzling. The exhibition featured drawings that were censored or never made it toÃâà...
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