A defining moment
Asked to identify the defining moment in modern Egyptian history the vast majority of those questioned will point to the 1952 Revolution, the 50th anniversary of which falls on Tuesday..--read on--

The long revolution
Amina Elbendary chronicles the events which shaped the 1952 July Revolution in the three decades since its inception

Political economy of the revolution

Safeguarding Nasser's legacy
Hoda Abdel-Nasser, daughter of the late president, has spent her professional career as a historian gathering the materials for a just assessment of her father's life and legacy, as she explains to Gamal Nkrumah

New phase of the revolution
Mursi Saad El-Din, secretary of the Egyptian Institute in London at the time of the Revolution in July 1952, remembers the role played by late President Anwar El-Sadat in conversation with his wife, Jehan

The forgotten president
A figurehead to remember: Nevine Khalil profiles Egypt's first president, a soon- to-be dislocated arm of the revolution

All the revolution's men

'The red major'
Former member of the Revolution Command Council and now president of the left-leaning Tagammu' Party, Khaled Mohieddin, still considers that he has not been properly honoured for the role he played in the 1952 Revolution, as he explains to Khaled Dawoud

Announcing the revolution
Fahmi Omar, former head of Egyptian Broadcasting, broke the news of the army coup d'état on the morning of 23 July 1952 to an anxious Egyptian public. In an interview with Omayma Abdel-Latif, he gives a rare glimpse of how the Free Officers first made their movement public

Of generals and people
The late Egyptian politician Fathi Radwan, the man selected by the army officers to set up their advocacy programme, talked to Mustafa Abdel-Ghani about his recollections of the early days of the revolution

A shifting relationship
The late Egyptian novelist and owner of Rose El-Youssef magazine Ihsan Abdel-Qudous talked to Mustafa Abdel-Ghani about his special relationship with Nasser before and after the revolution

Neo-Pan-Arabism
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa tells Dina Ezzat that Pan-Arabism, a fundamental target of the July Revolution, is still on the agenda, but not in the same sense as before or after 1952

'It did not fail'
Few parts of the Revolution's programme have been as much criticised as its economic development policies. Socialist economist, former economic advisor to Nasser and minister of planning under Sadat Ismail Sabry Abdalla defends the Revolution's economic achievements in conversation with Hala Sakr

A View from Paris
David Tresilian talks to veteran journalist Eric Rouleau in Paris about his memories of the 1952 Revolution and its leader

'Our Revolution'
Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi, the most famous living poet of the Sixties Generation and one of Upper Egypt's best known writers and public figures, describes the impact of the Revolution on the nation's literary life in an interview with Youssef Rakha

On being named Nasser
Arabism and revolution: Nasser Rabbat looks back

'He was a true leader'
Occasional official neglect might leave Nasser at the edge of the picture, but, Dina Ezzat finds, the leader will never be forgotten