Alex Rowell is a journalist and author in Lebanon, where he has written for publications including the BBC, the Economist and the Washington Post.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'etat he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconi... SEE MORE