Fifty years since Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, controversy over the legacy of the charismatic Egyptian president who championed Arab unity lives on in Egypt as deep divisions beset the Middle East.

“Nasser's Republic: The Making Of Modern Egypt” is a documentary about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world's most transformative leaders. In 1952, then a young, unknown Egyptian colonel, Nasser ...

Anti-Egyptian feelings continued to mount here today among members of Congress following the statement made last week at a public meeting in Port Said by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the ...

Egypt’s 2011 revolution marks the latest chapter in Egyptians’ longtime struggle for greater democratic freedoms. In this video, Steven A. Cook, CFR’s Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern ...

With street mobs, intrigues, tears and tanks, Egypt’s two strongmen fought the battle for power. On one side was President Mohammed Naguib, who proposed to stay in power by counterrevolution: ...

Henry A. Byroade, then American Ambassador to Cairo, was personally responsible for disclosing to President Nasser of Egypt the fact that Washington was about to change its policy towards that country ...

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the charismatic ruler of Egypt, died 50 years ago on Sept. 28, 1970. During his 18 years in power, 1952-70, he dominated the Middle East and, even now, he remains an intense topic ...