Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy

2020
Author(s)
Publisher
Jacobin
Journal Article - Beinin

Fifty years after his death, the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser still casts a long shadow over Arab politics. A symbol of defiance in the age of decolonization, Nasser transformed his country but never gave its people control of the system that ruled them.