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Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
"Nasser" redirects here. For other uses, see Nasser (disambiguation) and Gamal Abdel Nasser (disambiguation).
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein[a] (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 assassination attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was formally elected president in June 1956.
Nasser's popularity in Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his nationalization of the Suez Canal Company and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis, known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression. Calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership incre
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INTRODUCTION
WHY LAYLA MURAD?
WHEN THE EGYPTIAN SINGER and movie star Layla Murad died in Cairo in November 1995, the headline in the Arabic celebrity magazine al-Kawakib read, “She lived as a Muslim, died as a Muslim, and was buried in the Muslim cemetery.” The magazine meant to deny rumors that Murad (1918–1995) had returned to Judaism after converting to Islam in the 1940s. Questions about Murad’s faith, loyalty to Egypt, connections with Israel, and sexual affairs with elite politicians haunted her life and her legacy decades after her death. Ironically, she achieved her success as a popular superstar long before her conversion to Islam. Being a Jew and a daughter of the famous Jewish singer Zaki Murad did not pose an obstacle to her popularity from the time she launched her career in 1932.
Until she released her gods movie in 1955, Layla Murad starred in twenty-eight films, almost all of them considered classics in the Egyptian and
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