A Border Passage True or False

1. Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser? -> Second president of Egypt
2. Huda Shaarawi was a feminist who made a very public gesture to support women's rights. What was it? -> She demanded a better education for herself
3. Ahmed's father opposed the building of the Aswan High Dam on ecological grounds. Why did this so upset Nasser that his government persecuted Ahmed's family for years after? -> Nasser had already built the dam and didn't want opposition
4. Why was there violence around Balfour Day commemorations in Cairo in the late '40s? -> Egyptians hated colonial British rule by this point
5. Nasser becomes the "hero of the third world" after the bombing of Port Said because: -> He'd stood up to the British, who were considered bullies

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