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Book SynopsisGamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt's 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private. In 1973, three years after his early passing at the age of 52, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband for her family. The family then waited almost forty years, through the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, both unsympathetic to the memory of Nasser, before publishing Tahia's book in Arabic for the first time in 2011. Now this unique insight into the life of one of the giants of the twentieth century is finally available in English. Accompanied by more than one hundred photographs from the family archive, many never before published, this historic book tells the story of the couple's life together from their marriage in 1944, through the Revolution and Nasser's career on the world stage, revealing an unknown and intimate picture of the man behind the president.
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Table of ContentsForeword by Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser Prologue: Dearly Departed Early Years To Palestine Return from al-Faluja Continual Meetings with the Officers Prelude to the Revolution The 23 July Revolution The Declaration of the Republic Conspiracies At Home after the Revolution The Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company Life at Manshiyat al-Bakri after the Evacuation Presidential Duties End of the Union The Family Man 1967 The First Heart Attack Summer 1970 The Final Moments Index
