Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Nasser's wife: her memoirs

Don't underestimate the impact of this memoirs on Arab political culture in those turbulent times.  Nasser's late wife apparently wrote her memoirs and they are now being published by Ash-Shuruq newspaper in Egypt and As-Safir in Lebanon. Their significance--politics aside and aside from Saudi historical hate of Nasser--is that they show a modest and highly ascetic leader who had a decent relationship with his wife--unlike the polygamous and non-polygamous Arab rulers.