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He said the U.S.-Egypt relationship has been a boon for U.S. interests and stability in the Middle East, after decades of hostility when Gen. Gamal Abdel Nasser led his country down a "stridently anti-Western and anti-U.S." Berman warned, however,...
Center, Herzliya’s Program for the Diplomatic Corps. The authors can be followed on Twitter at TheMidEastBeast. By Gabriel Kohan and Mark Donig - Special to CNN In 1967, after the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) in the Sinai Peninsula abandoned its position...
Egyptians walk past an artist, center, working on an advertisement banner for a customer in an alley of a neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Banners on the wall from left to right, depicting former Arab singing star Umm Kolthoum,... View Photo »
Until Egypt’s Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and ’60s, Egypt had a millennia-old, thriving Jewish community. As late as the 1930s, Jewish politicians occupied ministerial posts in Egyptian governments and participated in nationalist politics
Apart from the traditional Russian concerns for international law and its principle of non-interference in internal affairs of sovereign states, there was also a new fear of being manipulated by Western powers to sanction regime change, as it happened...
He said the U.S.-Egypt relationship has been a boon for U.S. interests and stability in the Middle East, after decades of hostility when Gen. Gamal Abdel Nasser led his country down a "stridently anti-Western and anti-U.S." Berman warned, however,...
"One dimension of this issue cannot be brushed aside: foreign assistance," said Rep. Howard Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He said the U.S.-Egypt relationship has been a boon for U.S. interests and stability in the...
Syrian nationals residing in Lebanon and oppositions of Syrian regime hold a former Syrian flag and candles next to the statue of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser during a candle light vigil in central Beirut on February 12, 2012 to show their... View Photo »
He said the U.S.-Egypt relationship has been a boon for U.S. interests and stability in the Middle East, after decades of hostility when Gen. Gamal Abdel Nasser led his country down a "stridently anti-Western and anti-U.S." Berman warned, however,...
When Qutb returned to Egypt, he joined the Brotherhood. He refused all efforts by the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser to recruit or co-opt him, and he was executed in 1966. Facing unrelenting repression, the Brotherhood's mainstream gradually evolved...
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
Men talk near the site where a memorial to late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was demolished in downtown Benghazi February 12, 2012. The memorial was demolished because it was erected by the late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
View Photo »A cartoon depicting late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi is seen on the remains of a memorial to late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in downtown Benghazi February 12, 2012. The statue was demolished because it was erected by the late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
View Photo »Men look on as a memorial to late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser is demolished in downtown Benghazi February 12, 2012. The statue was demolished because it was erected by the late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
View Photo »The site where a statue of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was demolished is seen in downtown Benghazi February 12, 2012. The statue was demolished because it was erected by the late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
View Photo »Egyptians walk past an artist, center, working on an advertisement banner for a customer in an alley of a neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Banners on the wall from left to right, depicting former Arab singing star Umm Kolthoum, former Egyptian singer Abdel Halim...
View Photo »Two Egyptian girls hold hands as they walk past banners from left to right, depicting former Arab singing star Umm Kolthoum, former Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, and former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, with Arabic writing that reads, "Arafa's children," in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday,...
View Photo »A protestor wearing depictions of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, left, and Anwar Sadat, right, dances in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Egypt's military rulers claimed the surprisingly heavy turnout for the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's...
View Photo »Egyptians hold pictures of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser and a placard that reads, in Arabic, "we did not come to celebrate, we came to continue this revolution," as thousands gather in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak...
View Photo »An Egyptian protester holds a picture of late president Gamal Abdel Nasser reading in Arabic 'Nasser is the solution’’ during a rally in Cairo's Tahrir square on January 20, 2012.
View Photo »Egyptian school children gather under electoral posters with pictures of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and Arabic that reads, "the Nasser Arab Democratic Party, Mustafa al-Saidi," on a street in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Egyptians are set for another democratic...
View Photo »An anti-military rule protestor wears a hat holding portraits of former president Gamal Abdel Nasser during a demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 2, 2011. Egypt awaited the delayed publication of results for the opening phase of its first elections since the overthrow of...
View Photo »CAIRO, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 29: A taxi displays a photo of Egyptian revolutionary leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in the window on the second day of voting on November 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Eleven months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak 45 million Egyptians are voting in the first round of six...
View Photo »A man holds a sign with an image of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser during a demonstration against the Egyptian military council in Tahrir square in Cairo November 27, 2011. Protesters gathered again in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday to try to evict the generals who replaced Hosni...
View Photo »Pictures of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser are placed on the head of an Egyptian protester during a rally in Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on November 18, 2011 with the aim of pushing Egypt's ruling military to cede power, 10 months after an uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's...
View Photo »FILE - In this undated 1969 photo, Col. Moammar Gadhafi , right, salutes as he appears with Egypt's Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, left, in Suez, Egypt. A U.S. official says Libya's new government has told the United States that Moammar Gadhafi is dead. The official said Libya's...
View Photo »An Egyptian man waves his national flag while another holds the portrait of late president Gamal Abdel Nasser as thousands of workers gather at Tahrir Square in Cairo on May 1, 2011 to demand social justice in post-revolt Egypt while marking their first Labour Day in three decades without...
View Photo »Abdel Hamid Gamal Abdel Nasser (R), the son of Former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, speaks with former Libyan opposition member Yussef Shakir in the gardens of the Rixos Hotel where the International media are residing in Tripoli on April 6, 2011.
View Photo »REMOVING BYLINE Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi (C) joins dozens of mourners including politicians at the funeral of Khaled, the son of Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, in Cairo on September 16, 2011. Khaled Abdel Nasser died at a hospital in Cairo on...
View Photo »REMOVING BYLINE Egyptian mourners bid farewell to Khaled, the son of Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser (portrait), during his funeral on September 16, 2011 in Cairo. Khaled Abdel Nasser died at a hospital in Cairo on September 15 at the age of 62 after suffering from...
View Photo »Egypt's military ruler field marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, left, and Sami Anan Egyptian chief of staff of the armed forces, are surrounded by military policemen and cameramen as they attend the funeral of Khaled Abdel Nasser, the son of Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, in Cairo,...
View Photo »FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 file photo, Egypt's military ruler field marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, is greeted by mourners at the funeral of Khaled Abdel Nasser, the son of Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, as he takes part in the funeral in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's...
View Photo »Egyptian presidential candidate and leader of Al-Karamah Party Hamdin Sabahi, left, is surrounded by supporters as he attends the funeral of Khaled Abdel Nasser, the son of Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. At right is an unidentified...
View Photo »CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 26: Abdul Hakim Nasser (R), son of former Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser, speaks with Bunte-Reporter Katrin Sachse (L) in his flat in the district Heliopolis Feburary 26, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
View Photo »CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 26: Abdul Hakim Nasser, son of former Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser, looks on during an interview in his flat in the district Heliopolis on Feburary 26, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
View Photo »A street vendor sells Egyptian flags and pictures of, Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and late Egyptian Presidents Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser, outside the court where former President Hosni Mubarak is on trial, in Cairo on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. The 83-year-old Egypt's ousted...
View Photo »Men talk near the site where a memorial to late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was demolished in downtown Benghazi February 12, 2012. The memorial was demolished because it was erected by the late former leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.
View Photo »Until Egypt’s Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and ’60s, Egypt had a millennia-old, thriving Jewish community. As late as the 1930s, Jewish politicians occupied ministerial posts in Egyptian governments and participated in nationalist politics
