Nasser

Examples

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• Young Qaddafi's hero was Gamal Abdel Nasser, the fiery Egyptian president who preached a heady, aggressive Arab nationalism.

  Academic text (1999)

• Upper Egyptian fellahin also benefited from Nasser's educational policies and, after the early 1970s, from opportunities to work abroad.

  Academic text (1999)

• After the war, Nasser would admit, "we never thought it would lead to what it did."

  Academic text (2017)

• The Free Officers Movement, led by Nasser, was one of these movements.

  Academic text (1992)

• That is precisely what Nasser wants for Egypt.

• Rather than addressing the issues raised, advisers to President Nasser looked for a possible trap.

  Academic text (1990)

• Today, millions of Egyptians came out on the streets... to bid farewell to President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

  The Angel (2018)

• Then, in 1952, Gamal Abdul Nasser overthrew the Egyptian monarchy, and pan-Arab nationalism became personified in Nasser's leadership.

  Academic text (1999)

• Today, millions of Egyptians came out on the streets to bid farewell to President Nasser.

• The British had been stunned when Nasser legally nationalized the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956.

Synonyms

G

Gamal Abdel Nasser

vsNasser

7.5

An Egyptian president who led the country from 1956 to 1970 and took control of the Suez Canal

is the shorter familiar form of the full personal name

Compounds

L

Lake Nasser

4.5

A large man-made lake in southern Egypt formed by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile

Surface Forms

Etymology