[continuation of the Part 1] The developing relationship between Egypt and the Soviet Union alarmed President Dwight Eisenhower, and in July 1956 he cancelled a promised grant of 56 million dollars towards the building of the Aswan Dam. So Nasser did what no one had imagined, he nationalized the Suez Canal, arguing that this was the only way to help finance the Aswan Dam.

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To truly know the reasons behind someone’s admiration or disapproval you must address those who witnessed that person’s presence. The only people that can really tell us whether Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar El Sadat were both equally essential figures during their reigns are the generations that actually lived through them.

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It is said that there are deep influential factors of ancient Egyptian life in the distinguished religious music of the Coptic Orthodox Church, since it was first founded by St. Mark the Evangelist in the first century AD. "The Coptic Church is an ancient Egyptian glory", said Egypt's prominent thinker Dr.Taha Husssein about the dominant Christian church. He believed that the spiritual music of the church is the richest in the world, and is somehow revives similar music to that which was once performed in the Pharaonic era.

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