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 ...

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”; ...

Midnight in Cairo on the last day of August. In the Revolutionary Command Council headquarters in ex-King Farouk’s old pleasure house on the Nile, a phone rings. A big man with grizzled hair answers ...

For years Gamal Abdel Nasser has been fomenting all manner of uprisings, internal strife and coups d’état through out Africa and the Middle East. Last week it became clear that he had suffered a dose ...

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Miracles have been achieved Due to Gamal’s determination. —The Aswan High Dam Song On the great day, radios all over Egypt blared the new hit tune. At Aswan itself, 430 miles upstream from Cairo, ...

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When Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Britain and France sent 97 Canberras into Operation ...