I found some images that I made awhile back re: Egypt and I thought I'd share them here at this critical juncture in history. These images were actually my first real experiments with Adobe Photoshop. All images are pencil, acrylic and digital manipulation. I called the series Imperiale. PEACE ACCROSS OCEANS!
Gamal Abd El-Nasser was born in Alexandria and educated in Alexandria and Cairo. In 1948, he took part in the Arab Israeli War and founded the Free Officers Movement. In 1954, Nasser assumed the Prime Minister and played a key role in the Bandung Conference of 1955, which launched the nonalignment movement.
On July 26, 1956 Nasser made the historical decision of nationalizing the Suez Canal, which led to the tripartite aggression against Egypt. It was also during his reign when the first Egyptian People's Council was inaugurated in 1957.
His ambitions stretched beyond merely the situation in Egypt by being crowned with Egypt's union with Syria when he became the President of the Arab United Republic established in February 1958 -1961. Nasser's era was characteristic of a number of major achievements, which had significant impact on the Egyptian society at large namely; the enactment of the Land Reform Law in order to eliminate feudalism, construction of the High Dam in Aswan in addition to a wide range of socialist resolutions issued in July 1961.
King Farouk I was born in 1921. When King Fouad, his father died, Farouk was still under age, and accordingly a regency council was formed of Prince Mohammad Ali, Aziz Ezzat Pasha and Sherif Sabry Pasha to run the country until his constitutional powers were completely handed over to him on July 29, 1937. During his reign, Egypt was in a state of incomplete independence and suffered from chaos and corruption.
On July 23, 1952, the revolution erupted and King Farouk was forced to abdicate the throne to his son Ahmed Fouad II who was a child then. The abdication document was signed in Ras El Teen Palace on July 26, 1952, and Farouk left Egypt for Italy where he died in 1965 and was buried in Egypt in El Refai mosque.
