How to pronounce “abdel” in English

Abdel Nasser died a few days after signing this agreement, unfortunately.

Abdel Nasser's project was to build Aswan Dam.

Abdel Kader Haidara had a unique story, a pretty extraordinary story.

Abdel Kader kind of leaned towards the money-making side of his father's career but was persuaded by the chief librarian, who appealed

Abdel Kader was supposed to be getting money together.

So Abdel Hady El Gazzar was the son of a cleric.

Gamal Abdel Nasser here is shown as what?

So Abdel Nasser is the leader of the whole region, basically.

So Abdel Nasser is a recurrent theme.

did Abdel Nasser with the dam and everyone smiling around him and the ship is passing?

So Abdel Kader would go out into the bush.

You see Abdel Nasser surrounded by people who are happy, from diverse backgrounds.

What is Abdel Nasser doing here?

So you see Abdel Nasser.

And is Abdel Nasser as big as them?

So back to Abdel Kader-- this is the kind of landscape-- this is the road to Timbuktu if you could even imagine there's a road there.

So by the time Abdel Kader came around-- and I neglected to tell you this part of the story, what he was doing in the first place.

So by the time Abdel Kader came and had to try to find these works, there was a lot of fear out there.

This is the Kuwaiti painter depicting Gamal Abdel Nasser.

So you can imagine how Abdel Nasser's image loomed over the region.

So Hamid Ewais was very close to Abdel Nasser.

And then I'll continue Abdel Kader's story very briefly.

low-tech smuggling operation that Abdel Kader Haidara then engaged in, because he believed that at some point-- although they had not specifically threatened

So this is a typical scene of Abdel Kader at work.

But I'm sure that Abdel Kader's library, which is also a really impressive-- more modest building, but impressive still.

And he has made contact with Abdel Kader Haidara.

this was the heyday of kamal abdelnasser in the 1960s and then there was an idea of palestinian nationalism as embodied by

So in fact he was very close to the government of Abdel Nasser.

So this is a Kuwaiti artist depicting what Abdel Nasser meant to them, someone from the Gulf saying, Abdel Nasser now is the leader of the region.

But anyway, Abdel Kader was determined to rescue this lost tradition.

So Abdel Kader then embarked upon this incredibly elaborate effort using a network of smugglers, volunteers, fellow

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Now in the 1950s and 1960s, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president at the time, wanted to nationalize his country.

So the artist, as you can tell-- Abdel Hady El Gazzar was-- when the Egyptian revolution took place, do you think he was sorry to see the king go?

So what happened was Abdel Nasser had nationalized the Suez Canal.

In this case, you have Abdel Nasser here-- Hamid Ewais, who was another leftist leaning artist, socialist, who was very friendly with Abdel Nasser

You see the first vote sort of cross under the era of Abdel Nasser.

On one hand, they're presenting Abdel Nasser-- or he was presenting Abdel Nasser as being the successor of the and the successor

In their final act of vengeance, exactly what Abdel Kader foretold or feared what happened in fact happened, which was that the jihadists grabbed every manuscript

And then two more trips followed to Mali to kind of both piece together Abdel Kader's biography and then to go up to the North and find out what had happened.

And in 1962, Egypt introduced a new constitution that Abdel Nasser had commissioned.

There were 50 libraries, 377,000 volumes recollected by Abdel Kader and other librarians who emulated him who

So let me read two passages from this book that will kind of give you a taste of Abdel Kader.

Now, a big theme in the 1950s and '60s was nationalism and Pan-Arabism, which was championed by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

This is the Ahmed Baba Institute, the government owned library, which they attacked and gathered every manuscript that had been left behind, that Abdel Kader had been able to save,

So I'm going to read one more section, I think, that will give you another look at Abdel Kader and his methods.