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Strictly speaking, not the Suez Canal but the Suez Canal Company.
The Suez Canal is doing better business than ever: revenues are up $50 million over 1955 to some $150 million. Even so, in a nation whose population has grown by 3,500,000 since Nasser came to ...
In late-July 1956, three months before the Suez Crisis, British Prime Minister ... At this stage it had become clear that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser wanted to seize the Suez Canal ...
Despite becoming the mouthpiece for the Trump administration’s unprecedented hostility towards their European allies, ...
Egypt’s young soldier-dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser ... Hammarskjold first called Nasser’s move “regrettable,” and the Israelis raged. But as with his Suez grab, Nasser had looked to ...
In 1952, Gamal Abdel Nasser ... For Israel, Nasser's Arab nationalism made Egypt a threat. Egypt was home to one of the world's most important transportation systems: the Suez Canal.
In 1962 al-Sadat’s predecessor Gamal Abdel Nasser promulgated the National Charter, which established the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) as the country’s sole political party. In 1974 al-Sadat ...
In his review of “The Determined Spy,” Philip Terzian refers to the “newly nationalized Suez Canal” (Spring Books, April 5). Strictly speaking, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized ...
In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President ...