Gamal Abdel Nasser

Terry Anderson was a journalist of the Associated Press. He covered Lebanon's civil war for for three years before his capture in March 16, 1985. He was released on December 4, 1991, as the 16-year Lebanon civil war ended. Anderson, was the last American held hostage in Lebanon. He was held captive for 2,454 days by Islamic Jihad (Holy World). There were 14 other Americans held hostage for times ranging from two months to six years. Four Americans were all killed during captivation. Anderson’s…

Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal, which was then followed by a military attack from Israel, France, and Great Britain. The canal is an important man-made waterway in Egypt that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea; it is a critical shipping route operated under the French and British own-ed Suez Canal Company. Developed by French developer Ferdinand de Lesseps, the canal was first opened on November 17, 1869. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of…

The Free Officers assembled, with the leadership of Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Nasser to force King Farouk out. As Fanon describes in the Algerian case, “There is no program; there are no speeches or resolutions, and no political trends,” the exact opposite happens in the Egyptian case. If Sa’d Zaghlul agitating for independence…

weakness in Egypt, with the United States and its allies supporting Israel as the most advanced offensive weapon of all time, while the Soviets provided Egyptian defensive weapons in a rather reluctant situation. Former President Gamal Abdel Nasser has visited Moscow, and Nasser urged Moscow's top brass, claiming that if the Soviets refused to provide weapons, he would return to Egypt to announce to the Egyptian people that the Soviet Union had abandoned them and, in turn, to seek support from…

a terrorist group. In 1956 he create a constitution which ended imperialism, feudalism, monopoly, and capitalistic influence. The people were given basic human rights, but Nasser and three other government officials were the only ones allowed to nominate people for the Egyptian National Assembly. Beginning in 1952 to 1969 Nasser created a reform which took away the land from the rich landlords and redistributed it among the lower classes. The most land a landowner was allowed to have by 1969 was…

Multiple statements were made public about Israel from neighboring countries. On May 28, 1967 (the day Nasser called off the Israel attack) the former president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had a press conference and said, “We will not accept any… coexistence with Israel… Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel… The war with Israel is in effect since…

and consequences of the war. The dynamics of power in the Middle East were forever changed by a few simple choices. The set up for the war can be illustrated as a two player simultaneous game between Israel and Egypt. Egypt currently lead bu Gamal Abdel Nasser was the de facto leader of the Arab world. While he had made some failed attempts to consolidate…

Furthermore its economy was experiencing unprecedented growth with record oil revenues of 30 million dollars in 1980. Prior to the conflict Hussein was positioning himself to fill the power vacuum left by the decline of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser orienting himself and Iraq as the center of the pan-Arab nationalist…

threatened the West, “Soviet troops were crushing a rebellion in Hungary just as the British, the French, and Israelis—without informing the Americans—had seized the Suez Canal in an abortive effort to overthrow the anti-colonial Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser” (Gaddis 70). In order to distract the world from the bloodbath in Hungary, Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of British, French, and Israeli troops from Egypt. If his ultimatum wasn’t met these nations would face nuclear annihilation…

The start of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War began a series of standoffs and conflicts between the two superpowers. This conflict however, did not remain in the two countries and because both desired dominance over one another but did not want all out war, the conflicts were played out in weaker or smaller countries and regions of the world such as in the Middle East. The United States was attracted to the Middle East due to the containment…