Nasser: My Husband - Hardcover

Nasser, Tahia Gamal Abdel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9774166116 ISBN 13: 9789774166112

Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, 2013

Synopsis

Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of Egypt’s 1952 Revolution, president of the country from 1956 to 1970, hero to millions across the Arab world since the Suez Crisis, was also a family man, a devoted husband and father who kept his private life largely private.
In 1973, three years after his early passing at the age of 52, his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband for her family. The family then waited almost forty years, through the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, both unsympathetic to the memory of Nasser, before publishing Tahia’s book in Arabic for the first time in 2011. Now this unique insight into the life of one of the giants of the twentieth century is finally available in English.
Accompanied by more than one hundred photographs from the family archive, many never before published, this historic book tells the story of Gamal and Tahia’s life together from their marriage in 1944, through the Revolution and Gamal’s career on the world stage, revealing an unknown and intimate picture of the man behind the president.
“At 6:30am on the morning of July 23, 1952 there was a knock on the door. Tharwat Okasha shook my hand and congratulated me: ‘The military coup has succeeded.’ I asked him about Gamal. ‘He is close by, not more than five minutes away at the General Command.’ At 9:30am an officer called: he had come from the General Command at Kubri al-Qubba, sent by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser to tell me that he was fine and would not be home for lunch.”

About this title

About the Author:

Tahia Gamal Abdel Nasser, born Tahia Kazem in 1923, married Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1944 and lived with him until his death in 1970, raising five children. She died in 1990.

Tahia Khaled Abdel Nasser, granddaughter of Tahia and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo.

Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser, daughter of Tahia and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is professor of political science at Cairo University.

Shereen Mosaad is an Egyptian translator.

Review:

"Professor Nasser examines the role of translation and the global understanding of Egypt through focusing on the translation of these two works. When the memoir was first published in Arabic, in January 2011, it contributed to the late president's image, but only in the local narrative. The other text was also published in Arabic in 2012, which compiles his interviews and press releases in the local and global contexts. The intent of the release of both works in translation is to offer a lens into the private and public life of the late president and to add to the historical narrative of Egypt post-1952."--Mohga Hassib, Arabic Literature(In English)

About this edition

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9774166116
• ISBN 13: 9789774166112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Nasser Tahia Khaled Abdel