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.

“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 ...

THE threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are ...

Joe Biden issued a statement over the weekend declaring America’s unwavering support for Israel. In doing so, he was joining a long line of presidents who have issued similar declarations in the past.

Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared today that the statement yesterday by Egyptian President Nasser that the United Nations-sponsored cease-fire on the Suez Canal had ceased to exist must be taken at ...

At 6:30 one morning early this month, a phone shrilled in the small office off the bedroom of Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Already awake, he lifted the receiver to hear exciting news: a ...

Henry A. Byroade, then American Ambassador to Cairo, was personally responsible for disclosing to President Nasser of Egypt the fact that Washington was about to change its policy towards that country ...

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 ...

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 ...

The man the London conference was all about stayed home in Cairo last week, getting in provisions for a long fight. Gamal Abdel Nasser affected to be confident, but he could not bring off an ...

For the most part, Egypt’s supposedly volatile people accepted the triple assaults of their nation’s invaders with re markable discipline and calm. To this rule there was one notable exception: Gamal ...

It was Victory Day in Port Said, six years exactly since the last British soldier left Suez. There to celebrate the occasion was Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As 20,000 Egyptians cheered, ...