2017 Edition

Nasser's Republic

Nasser's Republic

Section: Freedom Films

Country: USA

Production Year: 2016

Runtime: 80 MIN

Directed by: Michal Goldman

Cinematography by: Kamal Abdel-Aziz

Edited by: Peter Rhodes

Narrators: Hiam Abbas, Khaled Abou El-Naga

Print Source: michal@filmmakerscollab.org

Synopsis: In 1952, young Egyptian colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser led a revolution. Over the next eighteen years, he challenged Western cultural hegemony, confronted Islamism at home and faced deep divisions among the Arabs.