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🗓️ 28 September 2020
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The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades up until his death on September 28th 1970. His funeral was attended by millions of grief-stricken Egyptians. In 2010 Mike Gallagher spoke to an ordinary Egyptian who remembered his death, and its aftermath. This programme is a rebroadcast.
Photo: Crowds in Cairo mourning Nasser on October 1st 1970. Credit: Fred Ihrt/LightRocket via Getty Images.
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0:31.0 | You're listening to the BBC World Service and now witness history with me Mike Gallagher. |
0:39.7 | It was on September 28th 1970 that the iconic Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, died. |
0:46.4 | He'd ruled Egypt for almost 20 years, and he was laid to rest amid chaotic and highly emotional |
0:51.9 | scenes. I heard from one ordinary Egyptian who observed not only |
0:56.0 | the funeral, but some of NASA's final moments too. You know, to us it was a lot of we know, what |
1:03.2 | I'm ferna, nahatami to all the law, |
1:06.2 | you know, to me it was really something, you know, I like him very much. When he came in the television, he used to stand there and talk about a lot. |
1:15.0 | When he came into television, he used to stand there and talk about hour and hour and a half without any piece of paper in his hand. |
1:28.0 | He was very intelligent, but he was normal like an Egyptian. |
1:33.0 | Myself as Egyptian, I can feel it, you know. |
1:37.0 | To many Egyptians, |
1:42.0 | Gamael-Nasser was a hero, the second president of their republic |
1:48.0 | and a man who sought to unite all the Arabs in the face of their former colonial masters. |
1:54.0 | So at the end of September 1970, a young Egyptian chauffeur called Gammal Mohedin |
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