Egypt Celebrates its National Day

23^rd July: Egypt Celebrates its National Day

On July 23rd, Egyptians all over the world celebrate Egypt's National Day, commemorating the fifty-sixth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952. After more than five decades, the Egyptian revolution remains a landmark in Egyptian, Arab and regional history as well as the history of independence movements in the third world.

The Egyptian revolution was launched as a military coup against the Late King Farouk I, placing General Mohamad Naguib as the first Egyptian President in post-pharaonic Egypt. It was only few years later when the true leader of the Free Officers, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, assumed power and transformed the coup into a revolution that instantiated the aspirations of millions of Egyptians, Arabs and third world people's in Asia, Africa and Latin America, thus placing the revolution as a milestone of post-World War II peoples' struggle for independence.