Saturday 17 September 2011

Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Son Dies

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I knew Khalid Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo University, I was one year ahead.
I remember him immitating his father famous Speach delivered on the birth of UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC.

New hope has emerged on the horizon of the East, a new great State emitted in its heart, has a great power in this East Not exotic nor usurper, not normal, protects and does not threaten, Safeguard, strengthen and not weaken, unite and not divide, ....."
أيها المواطنون أعضاء مجلس الأمة

لقد بزغ أمل جديد على أفق هذا الشرق، إن دولة جديدة تنبعث فى قلبه، لقد قامت دولة كبرى فى هذا الشرق ليست دخيلة فيه ولا غاصبة، ليست عادية عليه ولا مستعدية، دولة تحمى ولا تهدد، تصون ولا تبدد، تقوى ولا تضعف، توحد ولا تفرق، تسالم ولا تفرط، تشد أزر الصديق، ترد كيد العدو، لا تتحزب ولا تتعصب، لا تنحرف ولا تنحاز، تؤكد العدل، تدعم السلام، توفر الرخاء لها، لمن حولها، للبشر جميعاً، بقدر ما تتحمل وتطيق.

وفقكم الله وبارك لكم وحدتكم، وحمى جمهوريتكم العربية المتحدة.
والسلام عليكم ورحمه الله

I thought its Al-rayes, Gamal, but when I arrived to the lecture room, I was surprised to find that its his son Khalid
May God bless his soul 
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Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Son Dies
Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi on Friday led the funeral of the son of late president and leader Gamal Abdel Nasser who died Thursday, the official MENA agency reported.

Tantawi joined dozens of mourners including politicians and supporters of the late president for the funeral prayers of Khalid Abdel Nasser.

The son of the Arab nationalist leader was an outspoken critic of both his father's successors Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.

In 1988, he was tried in absentia and later acquitted on charges of belonging to a secret leftist organization that was vehemently opposed to the 1979 so-called peace treaty between Egypt and the Israeli enemy.

In January and February, he joined protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square for mass rallies that brought the end of the Mubarak regime.

Khalid, a professor of engineering at Cairo University, died aged 62 after a battle with illness.
Source: AFP
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