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Sami Sharaf
Sami Sharaf (; 20 April 1929 – 23 January 2023) was an Egyptian military officer who held various posts during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser. His public roles ended in May 1971 when he was arrested and then imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities under the presidency of Anwar Sadat. Early life and education Sharaf was born in Heliopolis, Cairo on 20 April 1929. His father, Mohamed Abdel Aziz Sharaf, was a physician who was trained in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and served as the director of Beni Suef Governorate. Sami had five siblings. Sharaf graduated from the Military Academy in February 1949. One of his teachers at the academy was Gamal Abdel Nasser. Career and activities Following his graduation Sharaf joined the army. In January 1953 he was arrested in the artillery crackdown and jailed. After he was freed, he began to work in the military intelligence unit. He was part of the Free Officers movement's left-wing faction. Sharaf was the head of the Presidential Offi ...
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced Land reform in Egypt, far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 Attempted assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser, assassination attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was 1956 Egyptian referendum, formally elected president in June 1956. Nasser's popularity in Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his Suez Canal Authority, nationalization of the Suez Canal and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis, known in Egypt as the ''Tripartite Aggression''. Calls for Arab Union, pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased, culminating with the formation of the United Ar ...
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1969 Saudi Arabian Coup D'état Attempt
The 1969 Saudi Arabian coup d'état attempt was a failed coup d'état planned by numerous high-ranking members of the Royal Saudi Air Force that resulted in King Faisal ordering the arrest of hundreds of military officers, including some generals.Faisal ibn Abd al Aziz ibn Saud Biography'. ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''. Retrieved 16 March 2007.Teitelbaum, Joshua"A Family Affair: Civil-Military Relations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" p. 11. The arrests were possibly based on a tip from an American intelligence agency.Vassiliev, p. 371 A previous coup attempt had also occurred against King Faisal in 1966. Background The 1950s and 1960s saw numerous coups d'état in the region. Muammar Gaddafi's coup that overthrew the monarchy in oil-rich Libya in 1969 was especially ominous for Saudi Arabia due to the similarity between the two sparsely populated desert countries. As a result, King Faisal built a sophisticated security apparatus, and cracked down firmly on dissent. As ...
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Al-Masry Al-Youm
''Al-Masry Al-Youm'' ( ', , meaning ''The Egyptian Today'') is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic as is its website, ''almasryalyoum.com''. An English version of the website was introduced in 2009 as the ''Al-masry Al-youm English Edition'', which later evolved into ''Egypt Independent''. It strives to be a full-service multimedia news organization for Egypt. History and profile The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of ''Al Masry Al Youm''. In 2004, its establishment was finalized, and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. The publisher of the daily is Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication. Magdi El Galad is one of the former editors-in-chief of the paper. Until 3 May 2014 Mohamed Salmawi served as editor-in-chief ...
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Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' (; ), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second-oldest after '' Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, as well as editions in English a ...
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Journal Of Cold War Studies
The ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on the history of the Cold War. It was established in 1999 and is published by MIT Press for the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies. The journal is issued also under the auspices of the ''Davis Center for Russian Studies'' (summer 2005). The editor in chief is Mark Kramer (Harvard University).Cancelled/Invalid LCCN: 99031398. Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is listed here, and in the WorldCat catalog (see OCLC link in infobox) Scope The journal covers the Cold War from a historical perspective by publishing research results from East and West archives during this period, as well as new memoirs. Topical coverage encompasses theories of decision making, deterrence, bureaucratic politics, institutional formation, bargaining, diplomacy, foreign policy conduct, and international relations. There is also a significant section for book reviews pertaining to the Cold War and international ...
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States News Service
States News Service was a news agency that operated from 1973 to 2004. Run by Leland J. Schwartz (b. 1949), the agency provided coverage of Washington, D.C., and the federal government for regional newspapers without their own D.C. bureaus. Later it expanded into the document retrieval business and an "hourly newspaper" called ''The Latest News''. Overview and structure States News Service's strategy was to concentrate on the local angles of national stories. Examples of these kinds of stories were described in a 1978 profile: States News Service was also valued for its coverage of local members of Congress, "their general performance and how they are voting. This is particularly important because many papers around the country have tended to take Congressional press releases ... and reprint them as news without doing any hard reporting on them." In 1978, client papers were charged between "$75 to $300 a week, based on circulation and need." In 1993, States' rates were from $5 ...
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Ashraf Marwan
Mohamed Ashraf Abu El Wafa Marwan, known as Ashraf Marwan (‎ 2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007), was an Egyptian official who worked as a spy for the Israeli Mossad. From 1969 on, Marwan worked at the Presidential Office, first under Gamal Abdel Nasser and then as a close aide to his successor, Anwar Sadat. In the lead-up to the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Marwan provided crucial information to Israel. In the 1980s, Marwan moved to London, where he became an arms dealer. He died under mysterious circumstances on June 27, 2007, after falling from the balcony of his house in London. His wife and relatives testified that before his death, he expressed concerns that he was being followed. Early life and education Marwan was born on February 2, 1944, in the Manshiyat al-Bakri neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. His grandfather was the chief of the Sharia courts in Egypt, and his father, a military officer, reached the rank of major general in the Egyptian military, with a final assi ...
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Journal Of Palestine Studies
The ''Journal of Palestine Studies'' (JPS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which has been published since 1971. It is published by Taylor and Francis on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies. History and profile The journal was established in 1971. Burhan Dajani, Walid Khalidi, Fuad Sarruf and Constantin Zureiq were instrumental in its start. The founding editor-in-chief was Hisham Sharabi. It is published by Taylor and Francis, having previously been published by the University of California Press. The editors-in-chief are Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University) and Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara). The journal covers Palestinian affairs and the Arab–Israeli conflict. Abstracting and indexing ''JPS'' is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.8. See also *''Arab Studies Quarterly ''Arab Studies Quarterly'' (''ASQ'') is an Engli ...
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Arab Studies Quarterly
''Arab Studies Quarterly'' (''ASQ'') is an English-language academic journal devoted to Arabist studies. It was established in 1979 by the Professors Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. They envisioned the journal to be a platform for academic research to counter anti-Arab propaganda veiled by academic jargon. Since its inception, ''ASQ'' has been a refereed academic journal that publishes articles on the Arabs, their history and social and political institutions. In 2021, the journal was made open access for all issues published since 2008. Articles appearing in this journal are indexed in the PAIS Bulletin and are annotated and indexed in Historical Abstracts; International Political Science Abstracts; America: History and Life; Political Science Abstracts; Periodica Islamica, and Index of Islamic Literature. The current editor of the journal is Ibrahim Aoude of the University of Hawaii. See also *Samih Farsoun, president of the Association of Arab American University Graduat ...
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Al-Ahram Weekly
''Al-Ahram Weekly'' is an English-language weekly broadsheet printed by the Al-Ahram Publishing House in Cairo, Egypt. History and profile ''Al Ahram Weekly'' was established in 1991 by the ''Al-Ahram'' newspaper, which also runs a French-language weekly version, '' Al-Ahram Hebdo''. Between 1991 and 2003, founder Hosni Guindi, served as the editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ... and Hani Shukrallah as managing editor and co-founder Mona Anis as deputy editor-in-chief. After Hosni's death in 2003, Shukrallah succeeded him as acting editor. In 2005 Egypt's Shura Council appointed Assem El-Qersh as the paper's editor-in-chief, replacing Shukrallah. In June 2014, Galal Nassar was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. The circulation of the magazine ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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India Quarterly
''India Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by Sage in association with Indian Council of World Affairs. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is edited by Vijay Thakur Singh. Abstracting and indexing ''India Quarterly'' is abstracted and indexed in: * Research Papers in Economics * DeepDyve * Portico * Dutch-KB * OCLC * ICI * EBSCO: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre * ProQuest: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts * ProQuest: Political Affairs Information Service * Scopus Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ... * J-Gate * Ohio * UGC Care * Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) References External links Indian Council of World Affairsicwa.in India Quarterly Journal of Inter ...
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