Nasser found himself imagining her, without wanting to…

“Nasser found himself imagining her, without wanting to: those large green eyes, and freckles, and sweet boy lips.”

— Kaye Thornbrugh

“She opened her sketchbook, carefully tore out several pages and handed them to Nasser--three detailed color sketches of three flowers. Leafing through the pages,…

— Kaye Thornbrugh

If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini,…

— Anthony Eden

“Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.”

— John R. Bradley

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and…

— Andre Aciman

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not…

— Anthony Eden

There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini…

— Anthony Eden

“Though the timing of Dulles’s decision may have been ordained by his domestic political situation, it was a shock to his colleagues and allies.…

— Alex von Tunzelmann

“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of the pharaonic…

— Tarek Osman

“after challenging France by arming and bankrolling the Algerian revolutionaries, he had the courage to send thousands of his troops to Yemen, on the…

— Tarek Osman

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis

“Sadat, years later, commented that Nasser did not die on 28 September 1970 but on 5 June 1967 (the day the war broke out).”

— Tarek Osman

“But in 1954 the organization was banned, then almost annihilated by Nasser. He claimed they tried to assassinate him while he delivered a public…

— John R. Bradley

“I lived through beautiful times, Busayna. It was a different age. Cairo was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a…

— Robert J. Donovan