In 1956, the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser triggered a dramatic confrontation that exposed the fading power of the British and French empires. Israel’s lightning ...

Journalist Rowell (Vintage Humour) offers a searing indictment of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who served as Egypt’s president from 1954 until his death in 1970. As leader of the 1952 revolution against the ...

Egypt’s schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught a song in praise of the man who’d appointed himself their president in 1954, at age 36—uncommonly young for a nonroyal to lead an Arab nation. “I heard ...

A rare audio recording featuring the voices of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and other Arab leaders was released on Monday, stirring significant ...

At 6:30 one morning early this month, a phone shrilled in the small office off the bedroom of Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Already awake, he lifted the receiver to hear exciting news: a ...

Alex Rowell draws the wrong conclusion about the Israel-Hamas conflict from his work on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (“When Israel’s Great Nemesis Accepted Peace,” Review, Nov. 25). First, he ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...

Egypt’s schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught a song in praise of the man who’d appointed himself their president in 1954, at age 36—uncommonly young for a nonroyal to lead an Arab nation. “I heard ...