Strictly speaking, not the Suez Canal but the Suez Canal Company.

Strictly speaking, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized not the Suez Canal but the Suez Canal Company in 1956, the entity that operated the waterway and whose largest shareholder was the ...

Egypt’s Chief Justice, who is rumored to be a Naguib supporter, and beat him badly. On hearing the news, National Guidance Minister Major Salem, a Nasser man, drove at a 70-mile-an-hour clip to ...

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In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud Arab nationalist determined to stand up to foreign ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

a member of a team of 300 German aircraft technicians working in Egypt under Hitler’s ace aircraft designer, Prof, Willy Messerschmitt. Jet fighters which the Germans are building for Nasser ...

But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El-Baset has been making fezzes for over 40 years.