When Bizri led a second Syrian delegation composed of military officers on January 11, 1958, and personally discouraged Syro-Egyptian unity, Nasser opted for a total merger.

Nasser was negotiating a British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and personally led the Egyptian negotiation team in March 1953.

" Although Nasser initially turned them down, suggesting that it would take a minimum of five years to establish a feasible political union, he became more afraid of a Communist takeover when the second Syrian delegation composed of military officers was led by Bizri on 11 January 1958 ; Bizri personally discouraged Syro-Egyptian unity.

During this time, Nasser became highly concerned with Amer's inability to train and modernize the army, as well as the state within a state he created by transforming the army and the intelligence apparatus — the latter was led by Salah Nasr — into " a separate fiefdom loyal to him personally ," according to Aburish.

Seem as personally authoritarian and quarrelsome, and not above dealing with his enemies by means of physical aggression-as in a famous case when he hit the maverick rightwing journalist David Nasser in public at the middle of the Rio de Janeiro airport-Brizola acted in the political game around the Goulart government-specially after his landslide 1962 election to Congress as a representative for the State of Guanabara-as a freebooter, being feared and hated by both the moderate Left and the Right.

Disagreements within the Society over Hudaybi's criticisms of the government then came to the fore, and Nasser personally made strenuous efforts to persuade the Brotherhood's leaders to have Hudaybi removed from his position.

On the international front, Bourguiba took a pro-Western position in the Cold War, but with a fiercely defended independent foreign policy that challenged the leadership of the Arab League by Egyptian President Nasser.

On 27 September 1962, revolutionaries inspired by the Arab nationalist ideology of United Arab Republic ( Egyptian ) President Gamal Abdel Nasser deposed the newly-crowned King Muhammad al-Badr, took control of Sana ' a, and established the Yemen Arab Republic ( YAR ).

In 1987 the Iranian director Nasser Taghvai adopted the novel into a nationalized version called Captain Khorshid which took the events from Cuba to the shores of the Persian Gulf.

The following year, the team, led by Israeli-Arab coach Azmi Nasser took part in the 1999 Pan Arab Games, in which they won the bronze medal after beating Syria, Qatar, and the UAE, while only losing to hosts Jordan.

He impressed members of Nasser Hussain's England side when playing for KwaZulu Natal in 1999 ; he took four top-order wickets and, despite batting at number nine, scored 61 not out from 57 balls, hitting four sixes.

The inauguration of the new Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral took place on June 25, 1968 in a ceremony attended by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, among other foreign clergy members from other churches.

Egyptian-trained military officers inspired by Nasser and led by the commander of the royal guard, Abdullah as-Sallal, deposed him the same year of his coronation, took control of Sana ' a, and created the Yemen Arab Republic ( YAR ).

Ahmad bin Yahya's reign was marked by growing econimic and political reforms, renewed friction with the United Kingdom over the British presence in the south, and growing pressures to support the Arab nationalist objectives of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser.

Without any close allies to watch over Syria, Nasser was blind to the growing unrest of the military.

Although his status as " leader of the Arabs " was badly damaged by the Israeli victory over the Arab armies in the Six-Day War, as well as Egypt's failure to win the subsequent War of Attrition against Israel, many in the general Arab population still view Nasser as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom.

Nasser was determined to establish the independence of the army from the monarchy, and with Amer as an intermediary, resolved to field a nominee for the Free Officers ; they selected Muhammad Naguib, a popular general who had offered his resignation to Farouk in 1942 over British high-handedness and was thrice wounded in the Palestine War.

The battle was thus seen as an Arab victory over Israel and Nasser immediately dispatched Mohammed Hassanein Heikal to invite Arafat to Cairo.

During Qasim's term, there was a much debate over whether Iraq should join the United Arab Republic, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Egypt was ruled autocratically by three presidents over the following six decades, by Nasser from 1954 until his death in 1970, by Anwar Sadat from 1971 until his assassination 1981, and by Hosni Mubarak from 1981 until his resignation in the face of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

He presided over the newly founded Republic, with close ties to Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt which served as the YAR's strongest ally in the war against the Saudi Arabian-backed Mutawakkalite royalists that lasted into 1968.

He rallied in support of Hashemite Iraq, whose leaders were competing with Nasser over pan-Arab leadership, and was allied to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Sa ' id.

Towards the close of the decade, pan-Arab nationalism had swept Syria, and Quwatli presided over the union with Egypt, which formed the United Arab Republic, headed by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Having abolished the monarchy in 1953, Egypt's new leaders, Muhammad Naguib, who was raised as a child of an Egyptian army officer in Sudan, and Gamal Abdel Nasser, believed the only way to end British domination in Sudan was for Egypt itself to abandon officially its sovereignty over Sudan.

When the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) was founded in 1964, Nasser proclaimed that it would hold authority over Gaza, but that authority was never conferred in practice .. A year later, conscription was instituted for the Palestinian Liberation Army.

In August that year, Amer, along with over 50 Egyptian military officers and two former ministers, was arrested for allegedly plotting a coup to overthrow Nasser.

In that year, he was selected by Sir James Outram to command a division in the Anglo-Persian War, during which he was present at the action of Muhamra against the forces of Nasser al-Din Shah under command of Khanlar Mirza.

Under President Nasser, proponents of statism and a command economy with limited private investment, dominated the political scene.

Today the Nasser and Kassem governments are adamantly hostile to the West, are dependent for their military power on Soviet equipment and personnel ; ;

Established on February 1, 1958, as a first step towards a pan-Arab state, the UAR was created when a group of political and military leaders in Syria proposed a merger of the two states to Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Convinced that he needed a wasta, Nasser managed to secure a meeting with the Secretary-of-State, Ibrahim Kheiry Pasha, who sponsored his second attempt into the military academy.

" Nasser also began forming a group consisting of other young military officers with strong nationalist sentiments and who supported some form of revolution.

Consequently, several high-ranking military officers resigned in protest of what they deemed the politicization of the army by keeping it loyal to Nasser.

Nasser chose Gamal Salem, a loyal officer, to head the military tribunal.

Nasser felt if he was to maintain Egypt's position as leader of the Arab world, he needed to acquire modern weapons to arm his military with.

When it became apparent that Western countries would not supply Egypt under financial and military terms acceptable to it, Nasser turned to the Soviet bloc and concluded a satisfactory armaments agreement with Czechoslovakia in September 1955.

Upon returning to Cairo, Nasser soon had Amer, Sidqi, and nine other generals arbitrarily arrested due to both popular and governmental accusations that they were attempting to organize a military coup against him.

As a result, Nasser ordered all military activities to cease, while embarking on a program to build a network of internal defenses.

During the Suez Crisis Johnson supported the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli invasion of the Sinai peninsula.

The Egyptian government, which came to be dominated by Gamal Abdel Nasser, was opposed to the British military presence in the Arab World.

It is frequently asserted that Gaitskell had himself initially supported the use of military action against the Egyptian president Nasser, but only on the basis that Britain had American support.

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser believed only military initiative would compel Israel or the international community to force a full Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, and hostilities soon resumed along the Suez Canal.

US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and US President Dwight Eisenhower told Nasser that the US would supply him with weapons only if they were used for defensive purposes and accompanied by US military personnel for supervision and training.

The person most identified with qawmiyya was Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, who used both military and political power to spread his version of pan-Arab ideology throughout the Arab world.

But the IDF had achieved numerous goals ; the borders dramatically tranquilized, Nasser promised to disband the Fedayeen, the Suez Canal was once again open to shipping and maybe most important of all, Israel had illustrated its military strength.

A junta organized as a temporary government with military support from Nasser and other pan-Arabists succeeded in preventing such a convention and a legitimate constitution was enacted by a legitimate parliament.

The Free Officers, led by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser were young members of the military – all under thirty-five and all from peasant or lower-middle-class backgrounds.

A brief power struggle broke out between Naguib and Nasser for control of the military and of Egypt.

On 22 – 26 July 1952, a group of disaffected army officers ( the " free officers ") led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk, whom the military blamed for Egypt's poor performance in the 1948 war with Israel.