When you consider the
headline news this past week, that the Trump Administration will be moving the
American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the timing couldn’t be
better for the new DVD release coming from Icarus Films on Jan 23. This would be documentary filmmaker Michal
Goldman’s Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt.
Turkey’s president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, immediately called for a pan-Islamic summit, but all eyes in
the region (Europe included) will be on Egypt, not Turkey, as to how this move
plays out in the Middle East.
Gamal Abdel Nasser is the
heart of modern Egypt … filmmaker Michal Goldman details Nasser’s rise to power
in 1952, the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967 and his death in September of 1970
from a massive heart attack. The legacy
of these 18 years as president of Egypt reverberate to this day as his
successes — and failures — remade a post-war Egypt into a nation that is at the
center of the Middle East.
Nasser’s Republic: The Making of
Modern Egypt is a documentary
that American audiences should see to more fully understand the pivotal role
that Egypt plays in the region. To this
point, Goldman took four years to assemble, not only the history of Nasser, but
to conduct numerous interviews with scholars, Islamists, secularists and the
people of the street.
Weaved together, the
result is a fascinating look at modern Egypt and the man who molded it.
Bonus features include
commentary by director Michal Goldman, an additional clip from the film and a
16-page booklet.
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