• Gamal Abdel Nasser (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the second president of Egypt. He held power from 1956 until his death.
  • He joined the Military College in March 1937, graduated in July 1938, and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1940.
  • He participated in the Palestine War in 1948, and upon his return, he was appointed as an instructor at the Military Staff College after passing its exam.
  • In July 1949, the founding committee of the Free Officers was formed in his home in Kobri al-Qubba in complete secrecy, and on July 23, 1952, the Free Officers organization succeeded in carrying out a revolution that overthrew King Farouk, and the republic was declared in 1953.
  • On April 17, 1954, he assumed the presidency of the Council of Ministers, and Muhammad Naguib was limited to the presidency of the republic.
  • The Egyptian negotiating delegation was able to extract British approval for the evacuation agreement on October 19, 1954.
  • He was subjected to an assassination attempt on October 26, 1954, in Mansheya Square in Alexandria, while he was giving a speech on the occasion of the celebration of the Evacuation Agreement.
  • He became President of the Republic on June 24, 1956.
  • He adopted the idea of constructing the High Dam, which represents a national epic written by the Egyptians, and is considered the greatest engineering project of the twentieth century.
  • On July 26, 1956, he announced a decision to nationalize the International Company for the Suez Maritime Canal, an Egyptian joint-stock company.
  • On February 22, 1958, he announced a union including Egypt and Syria called the “United Arab Republic,” and he assumed its presidency.
  • He announced his resignation from power on June 9, 1967, following which demonstrations took place demanding his continuation in power.
  • He wrote several books, including: “The Philosophy of the Revolution,” “President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Diaries of the 1948 Palestine War,” and “For the Sake of Freedom.”
  • He died on September 28, 1970.

After the announcement of his death, a state of shock spread throughout Egypt and the Arab world, and his funeral is considered the greatest funeral of the twentieth century, as millions took to the streets to participate in the presence of the heads of Arab countries. The Arab reaction in general was mourning, and thousands of people poured into the streets of the main cities all over the world. The Arab world.