Complex sentence: Nasser was greatly influenced by Egyptian nationalists, including politician Mustafa Kamel, poet Ahmed Shawqi, and his anti-colonialist instructor at the Military Academy, Aziz al-Masri, to whom he expressed his gratitude in a 1961 newspaper interview.
Split into simpler sentences: Nasser was greatly influenced by Egyptian nationalists, including politician Mustafa Kamel and poet Ahmed Shawqi. He would also come to greatly admire his anti-colonialist instructor at the Military Academy, Aziz al-Masri; he expressed his gratitude to al-Masri in a 1961 newspaper interview.