Strictly speaking, not the Suez Canal but the Suez Canal Company.

The British at the time could be confident that Nasser was indeed moving to nationalize the Suez Canal. Today, despite much noise emanating from Washington, it is by no means clear that the ...

the fate of a nation & legendary figures like Nasser & Sadat hung in the ... these newsreels from 1956 about the nationalization of the Suez Canal and the Suez Crisis. They have unintentionally ...

Despite becoming the mouthpiece for the Trump administration’s unprecedented hostility towards their European allies, ...

Prime Minister Menzies did not think very highly of Egyptians. “These Gyppos are a dangerous lot of backward adolescents, full of self importance and ignorance,” he recorded in his diary. He was just ...

In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud Arab nationalist determined to stand up to ...

But it was owned by Britain and France and very few of the huge profits made on the Canal ever found their way into the Egyptian economy. In 1956, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, bringing it ...

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 ...