Word: gamal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your Sept. 26 cover story on Premier Nasser of Egypt was an elegant piece of reporting. Gamal Nasser is truly representative of the modern Middle East's heads of state, a man of great executive and administrative ability, a person with much military know-how and a leader who maintains his touch with the "common...
...armed-forces exhibition in Cairo, thousands of army officers listened while Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser made a speech. Subject: why the Egyptian army, which governs the country (TIME, Sept. 26), is too weak to fight. The step which Nasser announced he had taken toward remedying this condition drew thunderous applause from his officers, but last week its implications threatened the Western world with a dangerous power shift in the critical Middle East...
...about to propose declaring war on the Axis was shot dead in the Senate Chamber. The Moslem Brotherhood grew to membership of 2,000,000 with secret cells (called families) and a terrorist organization. But none was so humiliated and infuriated by the Abdin Palace incident as Gamal Nasser and his proud young friends. At the Officers' Club in Cairo a committee was formed, the first step in the Free Officers' Movement which ten years later was to sweep Farouk and all his works out of Egypt...
...stopped and turned to listen to the passionate, guttural Arabic streaming out to them from the excited, exciting man who had stood so close to death. "Raise your heads, brothers, because the days of feudalism and colonialism are past." It was a moment, perhaps the moment of truth for Gamal Nasser; it gave him the inspiration and the chance to step from the background and assume open command...
While he expands his personal power, Nasser is coming closer to the day next January when he has promised to transform his military rule into representative government and give Egyptians a parliament. Not even Gamal Nasser himself seems certain that he will keep that promise. "Throughout my life," he confesses, "I have had faith in militarism." The army is the only sector of power he so far has found it possible to trust, and even there he fears that unless he can provide more equipment, morale will fall and officers will weaken to subversion from the Communist left...