Fifty years since Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, controversy over the legacy of the charismatic Egyptian president who championed Arab unity lives on in Egypt as deep divisions beset the Middle East.

A rare audio recording featuring the voices of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and other Arab leaders was released on Monday, stirring significant ...

Nasser was 38 when he became president of Egypt in 1956. He nationalized the Suez Canal and championed the pan-Arab cause, becoming one of the world's most prominent anti-imperialist figures by the ...

Journalist Rowell (Vintage Humour) offers a searing indictment of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who served as Egypt’s president from 1954 until his death in 1970. As leader of the 1952 revolution against the ...

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”; ...

Egypt’s schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught a song in praise of the man who’d appointed himself their president in 1954, at age 36—uncommonly young for a nonroyal to lead an Arab nation. “I heard ...

“Oh, compatriots, this is the moment of a lifetime,” cried Gamal Abdel Nasser. After more than 2,000 years, Egypt was free of foreign occupiers for the first time since the Persians marched in in 525 ...

In his review of “The Determined Spy,” Philip Terzian refers to the “newly nationalized Suez Canal” (Spring Books, April 5). Strictly speaking, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized not the Suez ...

Large groups of German scientists and engineers are working on non-conventional armament programs in Egypt, thereby “violating Germany’s basic law” which forbids postwar Germany to undertake any ...