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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 SaudiÃÂ ...
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 forÃÂ ...
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 aÃÂ ...
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 fromÃÂ ...
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 andÃÂ ...
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 itsÃÂ ...
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 electronicÃÂ ...
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 weÃÂ ...
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 FaroukÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 intoÃÂ ...
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 connectionÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
Manning Live
February 25, 2018
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt. 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. 1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalisticÃÂ ...
Forward
February 25, 2018
The Egyptian government under Gamal Abdel Nasser had begun to systematically expel noncitizens whose long residence in Egypt did not exempt them from the perceived crime of being of foreign origin after the 1956 Suez Crisis. (Though the expulsions, which often involved the imprisonment and tortureÃÂ ...
Arab News
February 24, 2018
The end of Nasserism after the death of President Gamal Abdel-Nasser in September 1970 brought an awareness of what was really going on in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Changes were taking place and new realities were emerging throughout the region. The era of Abdel-Nasser's successor AnwarÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
February 22, 2018
So if Egyptian nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh were “like Hitler,” failing to use military power in response to any bellicose action on their part would amount to appeasement. Indeed, both the catastrophic British-led military campaign against Egypt in 1956 after NasserÃÂ ...
Livemint
February 20, 2018
In 1956, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not happy with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's decision to nationalize the Suez Canal but he went ahead and supported it because the Indian leader realized the importance of keeping Cairo in good humour to maintain India's access to theÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
February 20, 2018
The exercise lasted for four days during July 2017 and included Egypt's helicopter carriers “Gamal Abdel Nasser” and “Anwar El-Sadat”. According to the official statement issued then, the exercises comprised the implementation of sailing information, dealing with hostile targets with high efficiency throughÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
February 19, 2018
The exercise lasted for four days during July 2017 and included Egypt's helicopter carriers “Gamal Abdel Nasser” and “Anwar El-Sadat”. According to the official statement issued then, the exercises comprised the implementation of sailing information, dealing with hostile targets with high efficiency throughÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 19, 2018
Furthermore, Egypt's first president, Gamal Abdel Nasser's domestic persecution campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, the communists and the Jews extended to largescale arbitrary arrests of Palestinian activists, unionists and intellectuals in the Gaza Strip. Recently, in Copenhagen, I met Umm Fadi,ÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
February 19, 2018
She was officially received and honored by former Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was known for his support of the Algerian resistance against the French colonialism since 1952. Moreover, she was the subject of Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's 1958 film “Jamila the Algerian” and aÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 17, 2018
William added that the elderly who grew up respecting former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's values and principles, and the religious among the Copts who embrace the church's stance, are the first to support the regime. Thabet explained that the elderly population grew up in Nasser's socialistÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
February 5, 2018
I instantly thought he would be assassinated, like during (Gamal Abdel) Nasser's days, and took to Twitter to announce it officially," Refaat said. "Sisi is going down the same road as Gamal Abdel Nasser, exactly like him, but he doesn't realise that our generation now has the internet to find out information,"ÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
February 5, 2018
Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2018. There are 329 days left in the year. Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is 84. Playwright John Guare is 80. Financial writer Jane Bryant Quinn is 79. Football Hall of Famer Roger Staubach is 76. Director Michael Mann is 75. Rock singer Al Kooper isÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 5, 2018
In 1958, Gamal Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic (a union of Egypt and Syria which lasted until 1961). In 1967, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiered on CBS-TV. In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar MitchellÃÂ ...
Ahram Online
February 4, 2018
Joyful wood: Egyptian sculptor Gamal Abdel Nasser explores 'Faces' ... However, in a new solo exhibition of sculpture, artist Gamal Abdel Nasser takes the viewer on a joyful adventure, displaying his unique way of capturing funny and odd human features. The exhibition was inaugurated 28 January atÃÂ ...
StepFeed
February 3, 2018
Gamal Abdel Nasser was born to a middle-class family in the Bakos neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt. He served as the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970. Before becoming a president, Nasser was recognized for leading the Free Officers in staging an almost bloodless coupÃÂ ...
The Economist (blog)
January 31, 2018
Flush from victory in the 1956 Suez crisis, and keen to promote Egyptian leadership, Gamal Abdel Nasser (pictured, top), then president, sent hundreds of teachers to Algeria, hoping the locals would dump French and its imperialist overtones (they would have taught standard Arabic, but spoken Egyptian).
Voice of America
January 29, 2018
There is a lot of criticism," he argued, "of the president, of officials, which never happened, for example, 50 or 60 years ago, under [former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel] Nasser." For that reason, he believes that "Egypt is progressing," but he suggests it would not be fair to "compare [the situation with]ÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
January 19, 2018
CAIRO - 19 January 2018: The son of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Abdel Hakim Abdel Nasser, announced on Thursday his endorsement for President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to run for a second presidential term. “President Sisi is a national icon and is backed by Egyptian people of all sects,” NasserÃÂ ...
Daily Telegraph
January 14, 2018
IN what came to signify the end of United Kingdom's international power, on July 26, 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal from its French and UK owners. It was Nasser's second attack on British influence in Egypt: four years earlier he had led the July 23 revolution thatÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
January 11, 2018
CAIRO - 11 January 2018: Egypt's Ministry of Culture has announced the official release of an Arabic-translated version of Anatoliĭ Agaryshev's book “Nasser”, which was first published in 1975. The release of the book commemorates the 100th birthday of Egypt's former President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Daily News Egypt
January 8, 2018
The Ministry of Culture is to organise a set of cultural events to commemorate the 100th birthday of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was born on 15 January 1918. Starting from 15 January and lasting for a week, a series of cultural events will be organised to revive the memory of AbdelÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
January 6, 2018
Coptic Christians make up about 12 per cent of Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, and in Australia number abound 30,000 according to the latest Census. They mostly migrated during the 1950s after Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power. Their faith forms an essential part of their minority'sÃÂ ...
Middle East Media Research Institute
December 26, 2017
Referring to Jerusalem, he quoted the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser as saying "Whatever is taken away from you by force… will be restored by force alone," and added: "We are running to the 'Black House,' we are running to Moscow, and we are running to this and that – seeking to becomeÃÂ ...
History
December 21, 2017
On October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal three months after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal to help fund a dam across the Nile River, initiating the Suez Crisis. Nasser's move dealt a harsh blow to the British. The 120-mile canal,ÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 15, 2017
Aida, Elsie and Raymond Krikorian with Ruth and Georges Raad, al-Auja, Palestine, 1931. Aida Krikorian Kawar/Arab Image Foundation. Dressed in a white t-shirt and raised on another protester's shoulders, a man in Lebanon joins a demonstration in support of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser inÃÂ ...
Mental Floss
December 15, 2017
They all wanted to see the last of Gamal Abdel Nasser as the president of Egypt.” But they all had separate reasons. By that point, both Britain and France were major shareholders in the Suez Canal Company. France also believed Nasser was assisting Algerian rebels fighting for independence from theirÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 8, 2017
Our first view of the Suez Crisis comes from Egypt, where government troops seize the privately owned Suez Canal Company and the revolutionary-turned-president, Gamal Abdel Nasser (Amir Boutrous), delivers a speech announcing its nationalization. Back in London, Eden sets up secret talks with IsraelÃÂ ...
Radio Times
December 8, 2017
The three allies wanted to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and subdue Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. President Nasser of Egypt (Getty). But after fighting began, political pressure from the US, Soviet Union and United Nations forced all three invaders to withdraw. The UK governmentÃÂ ...
Refinery29
December 8, 2017
In July 1956, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's charismatic and nationalist leader, decided to seize and nationalize the Suez Canal, which until then had been administrated by the British military. We actually see this play out in the very first episode of The Crown's new season, when Egyptian soldiersÃÂ ...
Qantara.de
December 31, 1999
Traditionally, the armed forces in Egypt are a source of national pride among Egyptians: in 1952, a group of military officers under the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser – known as the ″Free Officers″ – overthrew the king and established the republic. Ever since, the armed forces have seen themselvesÃÂ ...
Ahram Online
December 31, 1999
A century has passed since the birth of the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser (1918-1970), who was the de facto leader of the Free Officers Movement that started in the army and led the 1952 Revolution with far-reaching implications for Egypt both domestically and internationally. NasseristÃÂ ...
The Australian
December 1, 2017
Egypt's colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (Amir Boutrous) abruptly announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal and his soldiers occupy its headquarters. Eden, a master of self-delusion, is scandalised, but the Queen is more perturbed when she discovers a photo of a ballerina in her husband's briefcase ...
Forces Network
December 1, 2017
Egypt was Moscow's closest Arab ally in the 1950s and 1960s, when nationalist leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser turned away from the United States and secured Soviet backing. His successor, Anwar Sadat, broke ties with Moscow and evicted Soviet military advisers. Under Mr el-Sissi, who developed friendly ...
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