The Swiss auction house Phillips in Geneva announced the sale of a rare luxury watch, which they said belonged to the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, for 80,000 Swiss francs (approximately ...

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the charismatic ruler of Egypt, died 50 years ago on Sept. 28, 1970. During his 18 years in power, 1952-70, he dominated the Middle East and, even now, he remains an intense topic ...

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 ...

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”; ...

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 ...

After his attempted coup d’état in Tripoli in February 2014, Khalifa Haftar – a former protégé of the American CIA who fell into disgrace – earned the contempt of many Libyans. In Egypt, on the other ...

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 ...

“I look at Americans and say: may you choke to death on your fury.” So cried Egypt’s Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser early last week as he presided over the dedication of a new Cairo refinery. While ...

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 ...