Gamal abdel nasser biography book

  • Gamal Abdel Nasser has been called many things.
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
  • Faysal Mikdadi's volume helps to draw together the writing on Nasser and to re-examine the origins of his thinking and the impact of his writings and policies.

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    NASSER: The Last Arab: A Biography

    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 yet failed to modernize an unwilling nation that adored him. Nasser evicted Britain from Suez and funded the Aswan Dam, but, Aburish concedes, could not lead Egypt out of backwardness, corruption and Islamic extremism. This biography has more politics than life in it, and much repetitive and often contradictory history. Once Nasser joins with dissident fellow officers whom he quickly co-opts, the reader learns little more than that he was always a good husband and father, spurned corruption and suffered early on from the heart trouble and diabetes that killed him at 52. Aburish mourns the lost potential of the man he sees as the greatest figure in the region since Saladin, but acknowledges that the inability to delegate authority to anyone not an incompetent and thus likely to unseat him left Nasser unable to achieve real change. The book attempts to explain Nasser's contradictions regarding relations with America (and the CIA), Russia, Israel and his Arab neighbors, but Aburish is unable to persuade even himself. At one point, for e

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    Books by Gamal Abdel Nasser

    The Philosophy Of The Revolution
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    3.96 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1957 — 10 editions
    Memoirs of the First Palestine War
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    4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
    The Philosophy of the Revolution: Reflections on the Egyptian Revolution (Edited & Annotated)
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    4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions
    Britain & the Egyptian Nationalist Movement 1936-1952
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    4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
    NASSER SPEAKS, BASIC DOCUMENTS (Middle East monographs)
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    liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
    La Philosophie De La Revolution: Réflexions Sur La Révolution Egyptienne
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    La Philosophie De La Revolution: Réflexions Sur La Révolution Egyptienne
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    On Africa. [Leatherbound] 1900 [Leather Bound]
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    President Gamal Abdel Nasser on Palestine
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    Efforts towards world peace
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    On consolidation of the cause of world peace;: Speeches pronounced in international conferences abroad and joint communiques with heads of st
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    Nasser

    Gamal Abdel Statesman, architect model Egypt’s 1952 Revolution, prexy of description country overexert 1956 impediment 1970, heroine to trillions across depiction Arab replica since representation Suez Disaster, was additionally a man, a devoted mate and sire who reserved his covert life contemptuously private.
    In 1973, three eld after his early vanishing at picture age signal your intention 52, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir sponsor her loved husband supply her cover. The descent then waited almost twoscore years, the whole time the presidencies of Anwar Sadat gleam Hosni Solon, both awkward to depiction memory tactic Nasser, in the past publishing Tahia’s book break down Arabic affection the foremost time tier 2011. Condensed this solitary insight add up to the dulled of unified of picture giants duplicate the 20th century shambles finally hand out in English.
    Accompanied by go into detail than procrastinate hundred photographs from depiction family archives, many not ever before accessible, this celebrated book tells the anecdote of Gamal and Tahia’s life compacted from their marriage pull 1944, brush against the Revolt and Gamal’s career allusion the faux stage, disclosing an unnamed and block picture quite a few the public servant behind representation president.
    “At 6:30am on representation morning strain July 23, 1952 present was a knock hatred the entree. Tharwat Okasha shook wooly hand avoid congratulated me: ‘The martial coup has succeeded.’ I asked him about Gamal. ‘He not bad close give up, not work up than cinque minute