Fifty years since Gamal Abdel Nasser's death, controversy over the legacy of the charismatic Egyptian president who championed Arab unity lives on in Egypt as deep divisions beset the Middle East.

EGYPT Under Pressure Though his enemies abroad are apt to bemoan that the Suez debacle has made Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser “stronger than ever,” it did not look that way last week in Cairo. The ...

In his new novel, ‘Au soir d’Alexandrie’, the Egyptian author examines his country’s society under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s, in a work that draws parallels with the Egypt of today.

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 not the Suez ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a session of the U.N. COP28 Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1, 2023 (photo by Jakub Porzycki for NurPhoto via AP Images).

This series examines the countries today from the perspective of our correspondents on the ground to see how the post-revolutionary countries have come full circle to their autocratic ways. Journalism ...

Satellite imagery showed construction progress at Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, El-Dabaa, a Russian-built facility set ...