Nasser My Husband

Title

Nasser My Husband

Files

Department

English & Comparative Literature Department

Translator

Shereen Mosaad

Description

Gamal 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 Gamal and Tahia’s life together from their marriage in 1944, through the Revolution and Gamal’s career on the world stage, revealing an unknown and intimate picture of the man behind the president.

ISBN

9789774166112

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

City

Cairo

Keywords

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt, Memoir

Disciplines

Islamic World and Near East History | Near and Middle Eastern Studies | Near Eastern Languages and Societies

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