Happy Revolution day or Happy Coup day , today is the 23rd of July and as part of my usual annual celebration of this important day that changed the history of Egypt with its pros and cons I am sharing with my President Naguib Collection in photos I gathered from the internet and also from scans from magazines , some of them are very rare.
This is the real spirit I want to celebrate on that day , Mohamed Naguib believed in the coup and its principles for real and because of that I always like to remember Naguib too often especially that he was forgotten for too long.
I still got other Naguib’s photos which I have not scanned yet. There is a certain photo I want to comment on , I found it Al-Mussawar magazine.
President Naguib attending a dinner party held by the Freemasonic lodge in Cairo.
Just before the conspiracy theories jump in to the wagon foolishly accusing one of the most honorable men Egypt in its modern has known of being a secret freemason. Freemasonic lodges were officially allowed in Egypt till 1965 when Nasser ordered the closure of freemasonic lodges and criminalizing the freemasonry in Egypt accusing the lodges of espionage. So it was not against the law or anything . President Naguib was a freemason , in fact no one has ever dared to accuse him of such accusation.
Also I would like to share with the Mohamed Naguib section in the modern Egypt memory website with its wonderful sources “Over 700 images ,audio and also video files , it is like a treasure”. Unfortunately it is in Arabic still it is a great move to restore our lost history , the history we meant not to know in our official history books. President Naguib has not yet received what he really deserves from his country , already I wonder if his family receives the same pension that the El-Sadat Family receives as the former president’s pension !!! Mubarak recognizes Mohamed Naguib as the first president of Egypt which makes him equal to Nasser and Sadat and thus his family should have all the privileges of other former first families have.
Already I wonder too if Mubarak visits his tomb or sends his envoys on behalf of him like he always does on 6th of October visiting both Nasser and Sadat tombs !!
We must acknowledge the rights of President Naguib and his family who suffered a lot because of his decision to jeopardize himself and lead those young officers.
In the end here is the first statement for President Mohamed Naguib or rather General Mohamed Naguib to the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan citizen whether through the Radio or cinema regarding the coup that became a revolution later
Well said, Zeinobia. I hope Egyptians will always remember "Muhammad Naguib" as our 1st President not only a Metro Station.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Freemasonic lodges were officialy allowed before shutting down. On the other hand, I think many of the things that people don't know about him that he learnt 4 languages other than Arabic: English, Italian, German & Herbew because he was originaly translator before joining the Army. [Check Wikipedia]
@Hicham , may add to the valuable information you mentioned about General Naguib that he was the one that made the Hebrew to including the courses in the Egyptian army.
ReplyDeleteBesides these language the former President taught himself other languages in his exile