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Gamal Abdel Nasser, also spelled Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāsir, (born Jan. 15, 1918, Alexandria, Egypt—died Sept. 28, 1970, Cairo), Egyptian army officer who was prime minister (1954–56) and president (1956–70) of Egypt. In his youth, he took part in anti-British demonstrations.
Nasser’s outstanding accomplishment was his survival for 18 years as Egypt’s political leader, despite the strength of his opponents: communists, Muslim extremists, old political parties, rival military cliques, dispossessed landowners, supporters of Naguib, and what was left of the foreign colony.
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May 23, 2018 · Military leader. Gamal Abdel Nasser was one of the most revered and charismatic Arab leaders of the twentieth century. A political revolutionary, he played a central role in driving the British from Egypt after a seventy-two-year occupation.
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر, Gamāl ‘Abd el-Nāṣir; also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, Jamal Abd An-Nasser and other variants) (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970. Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent Egyptian history.
Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy. Fifty years after his death, the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser still casts a long shadow over Arab politics. A symbol of defiance in the age of decolonization, Nasser transformed his country but never gave its people control of the system that ruled them.
Gamal ‘Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt and a military officer who planned the Free Officers’ Revolution in 1952 which unseated the corrupt Wafd Party and ended British colonialism in Egypt. He was an outspoken nationalist, secularist, and socialist who directed educational, land, and economic reforms.
Jun 29, 2023 · Gamal Abdul Nasser (or Jamal Abdel Nassir) was an iconic historical figure in national, continental, and regional geopolitics. He played leading roles in the political histories of Egypt, his home country, Africa, and the Arabic Middle East.
