Word: nasserism
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...beginning of the film, the characters' prospects are less than rosy: Omar, having failed two sets of exams, does household chores all day for his widowed father, and Johnny, living in an abandoned building, has to keep one step ahead of some burly evictors. But Omar's Uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) comes to the rescue and agrees to employ his nephew, eventually allowing him to manage the eponymous laundrette, at that point nothing more than an unprofitable hangout for skinheads and other local riffraff...
Dismayingly little was yet known about what was happening in the war itself. The beleaguered President, Ali Nasser Muhammad, 46, apparently made a quick trip to nearby Ethiopia, possibly to secure arms and ammunition, then returned to South Yemen, where he was reported to be assembling a force of 40,000 soldiers and volunteers in the Abyan region, his stronghold to the east of the capital. Rebel radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks...
...Heights and southern Lebanon, as well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
...country's first President and, briefly, a national hero after a bloodless coup toppled King Farouk; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Cairo. A hero of Egypt's 1948 war with Israel, Naguib was recruited to lead a movement of dissident younger officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, aimed at ending the monarchy; after the revolution Naguib was named commander in chief of the armed forces and, later, Prime Minister and President. But he soon ran afoul of Nasser; in 1954 he was forced out of office and placed under house arrest, where he remained until...
...prevailing winds in Cairo blow north or south. One brings toxic fumes from the lead and zinc smelters in Shubra El Kheima just north of the city. When the wind shifts, it brings poisons from the steel and cement factories in the south, in Helwan. President Gamal Abdel Nasser converted the health resort of Helwan into an industrial showpiece in the late 1950s and 1960s. Today it is notable for its myriad dead trees...