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Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'état he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy lies at the heart of the violent and repressive or...

A searing exploration of authoritarianism in the Middle East through the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser's reign in Cold War-era Egypt

‘A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The Arabs: A History ______________________________________________ President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt for eighteen years from the coup d'etat of 1952, is best known in the West for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires. He was a larger-than...

A searing exploration of authoritarianism in the Middle East through the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser's reign in Cold War-era Egypt

A rhyming English translation of the ninth-century khamriyyat (wine poems) of Abu Nuwas.AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

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