Egypt Head of state
Gamal Abdel Nasser
جمال عبد الناصرSecond president of Egypt (1956-1970), architect of pan-Arabism and the Suez nationalisation, founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.
- Country
- Egypt
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of state
- Status
- Historical figure
Position
3 source documents on file for Gamal Abdel Nasser (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
On the record
Quotes attributed to Gamal Abdel Nasser that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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I have decided to give up completely and finally every official post and every political role, and to return to the ranks of the masses, performing my duty in their midst like any other citizen.
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If the imperialists do not like it, let them choke on their fury.
إذا لم يعجبهم هذا فليموتوا بغيظهم.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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English 1962-05-21 Gamal Abdel Nasser — National Charter (الميثاق, 1962), his foundational Arab-socialism program: public ownership over "exploitive private capital," but a distinctively non-Marxist socialism — "We do not believe in the necessity of class struggle." [Second doc — distinct Arab-socialism / ECONOMIC axis, vs his Suez anti-imperialism doc.]
Work aimed at expanding the base of national wealth can never be left to the haphazard ways of exploitive private capital. We do not believe in the necessity of class struggle … or in the supremacy of one class over…
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Speech English 1959-04-25 Gamal Abdel Nasser — Speech to the Officers' Club, Cairo, 25 April 1959 (UAR period): pan-Arab unity ("The independence of all Arab countries is a closely knit entity") and POSITIVE NEUTRALITY / non-alignment ("we shall not… accept the role of a satellite"; "non-alignment to either East or West"). [Third doc — distinct PAN-ARABISM + NON-ALIGNMENT axes, vs the existing Suez/anti-imperialism and Arab-socialism docs.]
[…] we have resolved to follow an independent policy and to maintain the independence of our country. We made that known when we declared that our policy is based on positive neutrality and nonalignment, for this means…
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Speech Arabic 1956-07-26 Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt) — Suez Canal nationalization speech, Manshiya Square, Alexandria, 26 July 1956 (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Nasser archive): laying "the foundation of glory, freedom and dignity," resisting "imperialism and the agents of imperialism," and a call to "together establish Arab nationalism... and Arab unity."
النهارده وجدنا الفرصة ووضعنا أساس العزة، ووضعنا أساس الحرية، ووضعنا أساس الكرامة. سنتجه قدماً إلى الأمام، نؤيد الحرية ونؤيد التحرير، نقاوم الاستعمار وأعوان الاستعمار. ولنرسى سوياً القومية العربية، ولنرسى سوياً الوحدة…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Gamal Abdel Nasser [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasser
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Gamal Abdel Nasser." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasser.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-nasser,
title = {{Gamal Abdel Nasser}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/nasser},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.