Republic of Egypt (1953–1958)
The Republic of Egypt was a state created in 1953 under the rule of Mohammed Naguib following the Egyptian revolution of 1952 in which the Kingdom of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty came to an end. It was superseded in 1958 with the creation of the United Arab Republic.
Nasser (right) and Mohamed Naguib (left) during celebrations marking the second anniversary of the 1952 revolution, July 1954
Mohamed Naguib praying with sons
Naguib and Nasser
Nasser handing documents to an Egyptian fellah in a land distribution ceremony in Minya, 1954
Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan, also known as Mohamed Naguib, was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary, who along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, was one of the two principal leaders of the Free Officers movement of 1952 that toppled the monarchy of Egypt and the Sudan, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Egypt, and the independence of Sudan, and eventually South Sudan in 2010.
Official portrait, c. 1954
Naguib during the 1948 war
Naguib (middle) with Nasser (left) and Salah Salem (right).
Naguib (left) and Nasser (right) during celebrations for the second anniversary of the revolution, July 1954
