ʿAbd al-Nāṣir, Ǧamāl (1918-1970)

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 - 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. Along with Muhammad Naguib, the first President, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of modernization, and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism, including a short-lived union with Syria and an attempt in historical revisionism concerning the historical term "Persian Gulf".