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Regardless of his diagnosis, the octogenarian’s tenure in office would appear to be nearing an end. Mubarak’s passing from the political scene will mark the end of an era. It will also mark a nadir in Egypt’s regional stature. Fifty years ago under...
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Through the posters and the signature campaign, "they would like to give the impression that Gamal Mubarak is supported by ordinary people," says Kamel. But even broaching the subject of succession is an unprecedented phenomenon in a country where the...
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A man reads the Koran in the Gamal Abdel Nasser mosque on the fifth day of Ramadan in the Libyan capital Tripoli August 15, 2010. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during... View Photo »
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I'm sure that there was somebody else involved. The truth will come out. They are still discovering things about Tutankhamun. How can he fall? Never. He was pushed.
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When most of the Arab countries of the Middle East invaded Israel, and Israel beat them back, the Jews were accused of humiliating the Arabs. In 1970, when Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser died, the AP ran a wire story which explained that Israel had...
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Its embrace of Islam as a totalizing political ideology is the model for Islamist groups around the world. In Egypt itself, the brotherhood expanded steadily, building a large following through its charitable works despite recurrent government crackdowns.
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Concern over the president's well-being mirrors the country's unsettling predicament: An era is ending; the future is not defined. From former presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat and through Mubarak's reign, Egypt has been ruled by strong...
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Picture taken 19 June 1956 of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (L) during a meeting with Yougoslavian president Josip Tito (C) and Egyptian prime minister Gamal Abdel Nasser (R), in Brioni Island. Indian statesman and prime minister (1947-64) Nehru joined the... View Photo »
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He turned to me and said: 'My life is in danger. I might be killed. I have a lot of different enemies,' ... He knew they were coming after him. He was killed by Mossad.
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"Rather, we seek democracy." And so say all of us. The problem with Mr Mubarak's presidency – and with Gamal, if this is to become the second caliphate in the Middle East (the capital of the first being Damascus) – is that after decades of promised...
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23 August 2010 Last updated at 13:49 ET BBC Middle East editor Derivative groups Suspicion and alarm Taken over Fundamentalists Critics believe the Muslim Brotherho
About Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر; Gamāl or Jamāl ‘Abd an-Nāṣir; - January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970. Along with Muhammad Naguib, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which removed King Farouk I and heralded a new period of industrialization in Egypt, together... Full Article
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