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Nasser, Gamal Abdel

as Egypt’s head of state

associates and contemporaries

Aswān High Dam

conflict with Muslim Brotherhood

international relations

overthrow of British colonial power

overthrow of King Faruk I

pictures of Nasser

reservoir named for Nasser

struggle with Muslim Brotherhood

1965: United Arab Republic (Egypt)

A chapter of Egyptian history was finally closed in 1965. Faruk, king of Egypt from 1936 until his forced abdication in 1952, died in Rome of a heart attack at the age of 45. The deposed monarch, whose very name had become a symbol of public corruption and private licentiousness, was unmourned...

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