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  • noun A proponent of Nasserism.

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Nasser +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Will the army now attempt, on the back of suppressive action in the streets, to shape a new version of the Nasserist state, or will the demonstrators shouting "We want a civilian government" in Tahrir Square prevail?

    Egypt: The army's fateful choice | Editorial 2011

  • In Egypt, ever since the Nasserist era, keeping control over statistics has been treated as a matter of national security.

    The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics Brian Whitaker 2010

  • Mr. Sabahy is a former member of Egypt's leftist Nasserist Party, one of the few legal opposition parties under Mr. Mubarak, and a party with little popular base, widely seen as co-opted by the regime.

    Egypt's Activists Unite Against Military Charles Levinson 2011

  • The next-worst outcome is that the current regime survives by returning to its Nasserist roots as a secular but reactionary regime — populist in its economic policies, hostile to the U.S. and Israel, potentially a client of China, and in the market for a nuclear arsenal.

    The Way Forward in Egypt Bret Stephens 2011

  • Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches.

    Among the Muslim Brothers Matthew Kaminski 2011

  • Will the army now attempt, on the back of suppressive action in the streets, to shape a new version of the Nasserist state, or will the demonstrators shouting "We want a civilian government" in Tahrir Square prevail?

    Egypt: The army's fateful choice | Editorial 2011

  • Mubarak assumed power in 1981 in the wake of President Sadat's tragic assassination at the hands of the very Islamist factions he empowered and used to combat opposing socialist and Nasserist political factions in the 70s.

    Wael Nawara: Gamal Mubarak for A Second Term? 2009

  • Do you know that the Mustafa Khalil, who led Egypt's peace with Israel process was a staunch Nasserist, under Nasser?

    Egypt: President Mubarak and the Egyptian Dignity 2009

  • The credibility of Israeli propaganda is emulating the Nasserist and Ba`thist propaganda of the 1960s.

    Wednesday, January 14, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • Do you know that the Mustafa Khalil, who led Egypt's peace with Israel process was a staunch Nasserist, under Nasser?

    Egypt: President Mubarak and the Egyptian Dignity 2009

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