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  ::Gamal Abdel Nasser::
Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt was born in 1918 and died in 1970.
Nasser was a pivotal figure in the recent history of the Middle East and played a highly prominent role in the 1956 Suez Crisis.
Nasser was appalled by what he considered to be the interference in the internal affairs of one country by a colonial European power.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (January 15, 1918 - September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt after President Muhammad Naguib and can be considered one of the most important Arab leaders in history.
Nasser's life-long strategy was neutral Pan-Arabism (and indeed consolidation among the developing nations).
The most dubious of Nasser's achievements was the creation of the Aswan Dam and the lake that bears his name in southern Egypt.
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 Nasser Gamal Abdal: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
In 1967, Nasser precipitated war with Israel by dissolving UN peacekeeping forces in the Sinai and blockading the Israeli port of Elat.
During his period of rule, Nasser instituted a program of land reform and economic and social development known as Arab socialism; the completion (1970) of the Aswan Dam (see under Aswan) was the crowning achievement of his regime.
Gamal Abdal Nasser emerged as a rival to Naguib, and in Feb., 1954, Naguib resigned.
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 Chemistry - Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser was born in Alexandria, the son of a postal official.
Nasser, a lieutenant colonel in the army, founded and served as leader of the Free Officers Movement, a group of young members of the military all under thirty-five and all from peasant or lower middle-class backgrounds, dedicated to overthrowing the British-backed King Farouk I of Egypt.
Nasser's policies became associated with the ideology of Pan-Arabism, which promoted strong, aggressive government action on the part of the Arab states in order to confront the "imperialist" West, and urged that the resources of the Arab states should be used for the benefit of the Arab people and not the West.
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 NASSER, Gamal Abdel
Nasser was born in Alexandria on Jan. 15, 1918, the son of a postman.
Nasser subsequently espoused a program of Arab socialism, in which banks and utilities were nationalized to finance a program of industrialization.
Nasser, taking responsibility for the debacle, resigned, but the people took to the streets, demanding his return to government.
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 Nasser - MSN Encarta
Nasser was born in Alexandria on January 15, 1918, the son of a postman.
Nasser subsequently espoused a program of Arab socialism, in which banks and utilities were nationalized to finance a program of industrialization.
Nasser, taking responsibility for the debacle, resigned, but the people took to the streets, demanding his return to government.
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 Gamal Nasser
Gamar Abdel Nasser was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1918.
Nasser was furious and on 26th July he announced he intended to nationalize the Suez Canal.
Nasser status was undermined by the heavy losses suffered during the Six-Day War.
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 Nasser Gamal Abdul
Nasser Gamal Abdul was born in Alexandria, Egypt as the son of a postal official.
Nasser fought against Israel in the 1948 war, and was evidently trapped in the “feluja pocket” along with his comrads.
Nasser was so well beaten by Israeli forces that he offered to resign, but the people paraded in honor of him in such large crowds that he stayed in office and also accepted the position of prime minister.
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 Kituo cha katiba >> Abdel Nasser - Profile
Gamal Abdel Nasser was the first head of state of Egypt.
The pioneer of Arabic socialism and the leader of their struggle in one of the most critical periods in their history, Nasser was born on the 15th of January in 1918 in the poor Alexandrian suburb of Bacos to southern Egyptian parents.
Nasser was a founding-leader of the non-aligned movement.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser ... youregypt.com
Nasser responded by nationalizing Suez Canal in July 1956 to exploit its revenues in financing the building of the Dam, a move that provoked Britain.
Nasser asked the UN troops in Sinai to leave and pushed his troops in, then he closed the strategic strait of Tiran, blocking the Red Sea waterway before Israel.
Nasser died of a heart attack on 28 September and was succeeded by his vice-president Anwar El-Sadat.
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Gamal Abd-Al Nasser was a charismatic and brilliant political leader who achieved unprecedented popularity both in Egypt and throughout the Arab world.
However Nasser's vehement opposition to Israel and his outspoken criticism of the West lost him US and European support for the building of the Aswan High Dam, forcing the Egyptian president to turn to the Soviets for aid.
Nasser's pan-Arab politics of the period tend to overshadow the achievements of his regime.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser - TheBestLinks.com - Gamal Nasser, Arabic language, Arab, Egypt, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر;, January 15, 1918 - September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib and can be considered one of the most important Arab leaders in history.
Nasser's tendency towards dramatic manipulation of politics was hilighted in his handling of the October 26, 1954 attempt on his life.
Nasser's negative achievement was making Egypt into a police state, where mail was opened, the press was censored and the political enemies were sent to concentration camps in the desert.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During the war, Nasser and Anwar Sadat, another friend and political ally, established contact with agents of the Axis powers, particularly several Italian ones and planned a coup to coincide with an Italian offensive that would expel the British forces from Egypt; however, the plan was never executed.
Nasser's policies became associated with Pan-Arabism, which promoted aggressive action by Arab states to confront the "imperialist" West, and urged that the resources of the Arab states should be used for the benefit of the Arab people and not the West.
Nasser responded with a series of measures subsequently referred to as the 'massacre of the judiciary,' including the dismissal of over a hundred sitting judges [3].
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 Operation Musketeer, Gamal Abdel Nasser " El Rayess "
Nasser was born on the 15th of January in 1918 in the poor Alexandrian suburb of Bacos to southern Egyptianparents.
Nasser joined the military collage after the the signature of the 1936 pact which allowed lower class youth to join such a collage that they were not allowed to before this pact.
Nasser resigned, shortly after the defeat 1967, taking the personal responsibility of the lost war, but hundreds of thausands of Cairenes and demonstartors allover the Arab countries marched in his support, protesting his resignation, asking for his stay and court marshalling the leading officers of the defeated war.
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 AllRefer.com - Gamal Abdel Nasser Information
His nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 led to an Anglo-French invasion and the Suez Crisis, and his ambitions for an Egyptian-led union of Arab states led to disquiet in the Middle East (and in the West).
Nasser was also an early and influential leader of the non-aligned movement.
Nasser entered the army from Cairo Military Academy, and was wounded in the Palestine War of 1948–49.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gamal was born on Jan. 15, 1918, in Alexandria.
Nasser became friends with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Tito of Yugoslavia, participated in the "Third World" Conference at Bandoeng in Java (April 1955), and purchased arms from Czechoslovakia.
Nasser, convinced that this was a reactionary move, instituted several socialistic measures in Egypt, free enterprise being deemed unable to promote a self-directed development.
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 CNN Cold War - Profile: Gamal Abdel Nasser
Son of a post office clerk, Nasser was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on January 15, 1918, and grew up in a small village in the Nile delta of the British-ruled country.
Nasser fervently hoped that eventually all Arab nations would join, but in 1961, Syria withdrew from the union.
One of Nasser's greatest accomplishments is that he stayed in power for 18 years in the face of a large number of domestic competitors and opponents.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) » Les Personnages Celebres
Nasser a marqué de son empreinte l’Egypte contemporaine qu’il a souhaité transformer en une nation moderne et puissante.
Nasser bénéficie du soutien indéniable d’une population sensible à son charisme incontestable.
Nasser se veut le promoteur d’un socialisme arabe en adoptant une voie originale entre capitalisme et communisme marxiste.
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 Gamal Abdu l-Nasser
In 1956 USA and Britain withdrew a promised support for the construction of a new Aswan Dam, and Nasser responded with nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, as he wanted to finance the construction of the dam with the income from tolls on the traffic on the canal.
The nationalization of the Suez Canal was met by an Israeli invasion of the Sinai peninsula and an Anglo-French invasion of the Canal Zone.
The humiliation of Egypt was so deep that Nasser offered to resign, but the people demonstrated in such numbers in his favour, that he continued, and also took the position as prime minister.
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 Gamal abdel NASSER : Biographie de Gamal abdel NASSER - Monsieur-Biographie.com
Gamal Abdel Nasser (en arabe جمال عبد الناصر, traditionnellement transcrit Gamal ʻabd an-Naṣr par les arabisants)‎ (15 janvier 1918 à Alexandrie - 28 septembre 1970) fut le deuxième président de l'Égypte après Mohammed Naguib.
Nasser centralise l'état égyptien, il fait augmenter les pouvoirs du président de la république, il nationalise l'industrie, procède a une réforme agraire, et met en œuvre de grands projet de travaux public, comme le barrage d'Assouan.
Gamal Abdel Nasser - Wikipédia : Gamal Abdel Nasser (en arabe جمال عبد الناصر, traditionnellement transcrit Gamal ʻabd an-Naṣr par les arabisants)‎ (15 janvier 1918 à...
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Press review | Nasser and Nasrallah   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Is it fair for the poor to bear the consequences of the shocking failure of monetary and economic reform that we have been burdened with for a quarter of a century...
Nasser, commentators across the board wrote, was a unique leader who demonstrated an exceptional ability to lead the nation to live up to many challenges of development, war and peace.
Nasser is still alive in the conscious of the nation...
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser
In 1954, Nasser assumed the Prime Minister position and signed the evacuation agreement of British forces from the Canal base in July 27, 1954.
On July 26, 1956 Nasser made the historcial decision of nationalizing the Suez Canal which led to the tripartite aggression against Egypt.
Nasser's era was charateristic of a number of major achievements which had significant impact on the Egyptian society at large namely; the enactment of the Land Reform Law in order to eliminate feudalism, construction of the High Dam in Aswan in addition to a wide range of socialist resolutions issued in July 1961.
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Two years later, Nasser was the only candidate in presidential elections and subsequently became the second President of Egypt.
Nasser's tendency towards dramatic manipulation of politics is highlighted by his handling of the October 26, 1954 attempt on his life.
Whether or not it was, Nasser used the national anger against the Muslim Brotherhood that resulted to launch his program to eradicate the group.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser
But with the complete defeat in the Six-Day War, he was so humiliated that he offered to resign, but the people demonstrated in such numbers in his favour, that he continued.
November 14: Nasser removes Naguib, allegedly for having known of the Muslim Brotherhood's attempt on Nasser's life in the month before.
Nasser kept the name although only Egypt was member of the united republic.
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 The Pharaonic Village - Gamal Abdel Nasser Exhibit
President Gamal Abdel Nasser was born on the fifteenth of January 1918 in Bacoose district of Alexandria.
Abdel Nasser participated for the first time of his life in a demonstration against the English occupants when he was 12 years old, as a pupil in the third year primary in Alexandria.
Abdel Nasser graduated from the Military College in July 1938 and joined the infantry corps as a second lieutenant.
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 Arab Israeli Wars Period 1948-1973, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon
Nasser's support of the Algerians angered the French and contributed to their decision to participate in the war against Nasser in 1956.
Nasser responded by nationalizing the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956, hoping to use its profits to pay for the dam.
Nasser had actually begun the hostilities in September, 1968, but announced the formal policy as a means of drawing in the super powers who, so he hoped, would work to resolve the conflict.
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 SEMP - Gamal Nasser on the Rule of Blood and Miracles in Egypt
Nasser led the complete liberation of Egypt and the restitution of national dignity in a titanic struggle with both his 35 million mostly downtrodden people and numerous world powers that undercut his efforts at every opportunity.
Nasser was an officer in the Egyptian Army, which was sent to fight the “Palestine War” in May 1948 immediately following the withdrawal of the British forces by United Nations decree in that country (see also “The Making of Israel at: http://www.semp.us/biots/biot_161.html; accessed December 23, 2005).
Nasser eventually reached the conclusion that “whatever the problem is that must be faced, the right way to effect its solution is to trace its elements back to their origins and by such analysis get the true root of the matter through discovering the causes.
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 Gamal Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser was born in Alexandria the second largest city in Egypt on January 15, 1918.
It is believed that Nasser focused his thoughts on peasants in view of the fact that he grew up in Cairo where he experienced firsthand its crowed quarters and the poverty of many in the city.
Nasser became president and allowed no opposition to his rule, after a year of occupation in Egypt; Nasser’s popularity was enormously strengthened by the agreement.
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