Monday, April 28, 2014

Farouk or Nasser?



Richard Cavendish remembers Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's King Farouk's succession to the Egyptian throne on April 28th, 1936 (History Today 61, April 2011). Or were the army officers on the other side, at least by 1952? ("Egypt wonders if army chief General Sisi is another Nasser," Martin Chulov, Guardian News Service, Cairo, August 09, 2013)

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