biography
pronunciation:
[nageeb]
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| lived:
| (1901–84)
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| biography:
| Egyptian general and president (1952–4), born in Khartoum, Sudan. As general of an army division in 1952 he participated as figurehead in the Free Officers' coup in Cairo which banished Farouk and initiated the ‘Egyptian Revolution’. Taking first the offices of commander-in-chief and prime minister, after the abolition of the monarchy in 1952 he became president of the republic. He was deposed in 1954 and succeeded by Nasser. |
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