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Funeral of President Gamal Abdel Nasser | Cairo, Egypt | October 1970

Thursday, October 1st 1970. Footage of the funeral of Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser who died on September 28th, 1970 of a heart attack. According to the Reuters News report, it was "the most astonishing state funeral to have been held in modern times". Source: Reuters News Archive. Note: Nasser was a colossal figure in Egyptian history and the politics of the Arab world. He was also important in regard to the organisation of decolonised African states, as well as the attempt at creating a non-aligned community of nations. Among his achievements after leading a group of revolutionary officers in the overthrow of King Farouk was the construction of the world-famous Aswan dam and the introduction of new technology into rural Egypt. He brought pride to the Arab world when he nationalised the Suez Canal, as well as in the aftermath of invasion of Egypt by France, Britain and Israel in 1956. Under Nasser, Egypt was a secular state and he clamped down on the Muslim Brotherhood whose leader Sayyid Qutb was executed for plotting to assassinate him. However, his defining ideology, that of Pan-Arabism never came to fruition. Not only did the Union with Syria as the "United Arab Republic" come apart, but the humiliating defeat of Egypt and other nations by Israel in 1967 marked a historical turning point in which many Arab communities turned away from the ideology of secularism to that of Islamism. See: "Nasser Funeral Is Disrupted by Frenzy of Millions" by Raymond H. Anderson, New York Times, October 2nd 1970. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/02/ar... "Nasser: The Last Arab" by Saïd K. Aburish, Thomas Dunne Books (2004).