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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 28 Sep. - 4 Oct. 2000 Issue No. 501 
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 28 Sep. - 4 Oct. 2000 Issue No. 501
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| Nasser's promise
Gamal Abdel-Nasser died 30 years ago today. He was mourned as no other leader had been before, and none has been since. And despite the best efforts of his enemies, his memory continues to occupy pride of place in the hearts and minds of millions of Egyptians, many of whom had not even been born when he led his nation on that roller-coaster ride through history: agrarian reform, Bandung, the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, the Aswan High Dam...--read on-- |
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Liberating Nasser's legacy It is 30 years since the death of Gamal Abdel-Nasser yet his legacy continues to excite intense debate, no less heated today than in the months that followed his passing. Is a more reasoned and less impassioned response possible? Is it not time for the Egyptian republic to come to terms with its founding father, for the Egyptian people to find accommodation with their own lived experience? Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, talking to Hosny Guindy and Hani Shukrallah, answers
The future of Nasserism A new brand of leadership |
ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE -- photo caption BALANCING THE BOOKS EGYPTIAN RENAISSANCE |
 PORTRAIT OF AN ERA: In 1962, upon the request of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, one of Gamal Abdel-Nasser's closest allies, Yugoslavia's most prominent portrait painter captured the likeness and spirit of Nasser seated by the fireplace of his Cairo home
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