Egypt flipped from a bitter foe to an ally of the US when Gamal Abdel Nasser died in 1969.
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In 1967, when Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the straits, president Lyndon Johnson begged off, forcing Israel to stand alone.
He was not a Marxist, at least: Egypt's nationalist hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was his model, rather than Lenin.
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser plotted his coup over cardamom-scented coffee at the Riche.
His big break came in 1956 when Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal from Britain.
In 1952, King Farouk the First of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Ironically, it was the Arab nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser who began to dismantle the independent labor movement in the 1950s.
Sabahy is a proponent of late and revered Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled the country in the '50s and '60s.
To explain today's events, he goes back to the 1950s, when the revolution of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt set Arab pulses racing.
In 1970, Vice-President Anwar Sadat was sworn in as acting president of Egypt after the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser the previous day.
In 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
In 1961, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the school.
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The initial lustre of the government that emerged under Gamal Abdel Nasser, a pan-Arab nationalist who was both visionary reformer and stern dictator, made Egypt a model for other Arab states.
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He wants to be for the 1980s and 1990s what Gamal Abdel Nasser was for the 1950s and 1960s: the preeminent Pan-Arabist, the leader of an as-yet-unborn third force telling Soviets and Americans to stay off his turf.
By his persuasive account, leaders such as the Sherif Hussein, who ruled what is now western Saudi Arabia at the time of the first world war, or Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's president from 1956 until 1970, were remarkably reckless men.
Whereas in 1962 the US acted alone against the threatened Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, in 1956, France, Israel and Britain acted against Egypt without US permission to limit the harm that then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser could cause to their separate strategic interests.
To flatter him, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.
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