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Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the second president of Egypt, was officially appointed on June 23, 1956, and served until his death on September 28, 1970. Before becoming president, Abdel-Nasser was an Egyptian nationalist and prime minister. The first son of Fahima and Hussein Abdel-Nasser, Gamal was […] … Read MoreGamal Hussein Abdel-Nasser (1918-1970)
Scholar, playwright, journalist, and African nationalist, Duse Mohamad Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt on November 24, 1866 to an Egyptian father, Ali Abdul Salam and a Sudanese mother, whose name is unknown. At a very young age Ali was sent to study in […] … Read MoreDuse Mohamad Ali (1866-1945)
[…] Britain. The main belligerents in the war were the central government of Sudan and the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM). Great Britain, Egypt, and the Soviet Union supported the central government while the SSLM was backed by Ethiopia, Uganda, and Israel. An estimated 500,000 […] … Read MoreFirst Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
[…] from the University of Chicago. Stone then worked for the humanitarian organization, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), in India and Egypt between 1957 and 1958. Upon returning to the United States, Stone worked various jobs for several African American newspapers. He became […] … Read MoreCharles Sumner “Chuck” Stone, Jr. (1924-2014)
The Kingdom of Kush with its three major cities of Meroe, Kerma, and Napata, emerged in the Nubian Desert south of Egypt along the Upper Nile River Valley from the 2nd millennium B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Archaeology, architecture, art, and burials provide the […] … Read MoreAncient Kush (2nd millennium B.C. – 4th century A.D.)
The Mahdist Revolution was an Islamic revolt against the Egyptian government in the Sudan. An apocalyptic branch of Islam, Mahdism incorporated the idea of a golden age in which the Mahdi, translated as “the guided one,” would restore the glory of Islam to the […] … Read MoreMahdist Revolution (1881-1898)
Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi, one of the youngest teachers of Arabic studies in Egypt (at that time the Ottoman Empire), traveled to and worked in Russia. During his residence in Russia, he was the first to compile an Arabic grammar manual in […] … Read MoreSheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi (1810-1861)
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, third President of post-independence Egypt (governing from 1970 to 1981), was born of peasant background in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu al-Kum on December 25, 1918. The son an Egyptian army clerk and a Sudanese housewife, Sadat was educated […] … Read MoreMuhammad Anwar al-Sadat (1918-1981)
[…] American art and artists in major museums and galleries across the nation. On October 16, 1943 Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting Flight into Egypt (see illustration) was hanging in the entrance hall of a home located at 127 Randolph Place in Washington, D.C. The occasion […] … Read MoreCollecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era
[…] time the Uzbek SSR, part of the Soviet Union). That conference featured 140 writers from 36 countries. Subsequent conferences convened in Cairo, Egypt, in February 1962, in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1967, in New Delhi, India, in November 1970, in Almaty, Kazakhstan (at that […] … Read MoreAfro-Asian Writers’ Conferences (1958-1979)
