On the evening of June 5, 1967, President Jamal Abdel Nasser decided that Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer had to go, and thus ...

In the sweltering reaches of the petroleous Persian Gulf, where Britain maintains some of the last outposts of Empire, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser has waged a long, hot campaign of intrigue and ...

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 ...

CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: “Death to Lumumba’s Murderers”; “French Killers, Hands Off Algiers”; ...

According to London-based journalist Aburish, his is the 28th biography of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970). The statistic says much about the appeal of the Egyptian colonel who forced out King Farouk ...

In “We Are Your Soldiers,” Alex Rowell shows how the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser inspired and fostered autocracy among his Arab neighbors in the 20th century and beyond. By Ben Hubbard When ...

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An eccentric but provocative retelling of the modern history of the Arab world, this book mixes insider accounts with sometimes far-fetched speculation to weave an entertaining story. Egyptian ...