Egypt Head of state

Gamal Abdel Nasser

جمال عبد الناصر

Head of state Inactive Verified

Second 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

Gamal Abdel Nasser governs without formal party mediation and has no source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

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.

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.

1967 Resignation broadcast on 9 June 1967, two days after the Six-Day War defeat — reversed within a day by mass demonstrations demanding the leader stay. en.wikiquote.org
If the imperialists do not like it, let them choke on their fury.

إذا لم يعجبهم هذا فليموتوا بغيظهم.

1956 July 26 1956 speech in Alexandria announcing the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company, in the dialect-laden register that became the speaker's signature with Egyptian audiences. en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com · britannica.com

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 June 21, 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 June 21, 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   = {2026-06-21},
  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 June 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.