Gamal Abdel Nasser became involved at a very young age in the fight against British influence in Egypt. As a lieutenant-colonel, he founded in 1945 the Mouvement of Free Officers, in 1952 led a military coup d’état against King Farouk and proclaimed the Republic in 1953. Among the main actors of the conference of Bandoeng (1955), he took over as head of the country in 1956 and his project was defined as anti-imperialist Arab united nationalism. With nationalisations among the most famous of which is that of the Suez Canal, Gamal Abdel Nasser has left a lasting imprint in Egypt, a country he led for half a century.