page_title: Khaled Mohieddin
section_title: Political life under Nasser
hierarchical_section_title: Khaled Mohieddin / Political life under Nasser
caption_attribution_description: English: Muhammad Naguib end Khalid Muhyi al-Din. Egypt, 1954 Русский: Президент Египта Мухаммед Нагиб и майор Халед Мохи эд-Дин посещают среднюю школу. 1954 год.
context_page_description: Khaled Mohieddine was an Egyptian politician and a major in the Egyptian Army. He participated in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, as a member of the Free Officers Movement, which overthrew the monarchy then under the rule of King Farouk.
  Mohieddine held important political and media roles throughout Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency, although the two had a number of falling outs as well. His political influence diminished during the early part of Anwar Sadat's presidency until he founded the leftist political party National Progressive Union Party in 1976.
  Under Mohieddine's leadership, Tagammu became a significant opposition force during Hosni Mubarak's rule.
context_section_description: By the spring of 1952, the Free Officers devised an operational command to depose King Farouk, with Mohieddine responsible for the armored corps. On July 23, he commanded his armed units through Cairo and the coup was successfully undertaken. He and Nasser wrote the first proclamation of the "revolution" on Cairo Radio. Mohieddine attended the ceremonious departure of the king and, according to him, Farouk stated to the attending officers that he "thought of doing the same thing they were doing."
  After Muhammad Naguib was made president, Mohieddine became a part of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). When army officers loyal to Nasser kidnapped Naguib in February 1954, Mohieddine unexpectedly ordered Naguib be released immediately and he was. He explained the reason he took that action was because he felt Nasser and the Free Officers could not rule Egypt without Naguib. Nasser, who was prime minister, responded to his move by dismissing all the officers loyal to him. At the advice of his cousin and fellow RCC member, Zakaria Mohieddine, Khaled dropped out of sight for a few days after the protest, returning to Cairo on March 5. The RCC members, including Mohieddine, agreed that he be sent to Europe as part of trade mission. According to close sources, his parting with Nasser was sober but not devoid of "shared sorrow". The Egyptian regime designated him as a representative of the RCC abroad, leaving the impression that his informal exile was temporary.
  With Nasser officially assuming the presidency and the end of the Suez Crisis in 1956, Mohieddine returned to Egypt and took a leading role in the government, being put in charge of the evening Al Messa' newspaper which he founded. He was also the publisher of the daily. A year later he served in the central committee of the National Union and was elected a member of the National Assembly. He was one of four people appointed by Nasser to set up the first conference of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization during 1957–58. Mohieddine later chaired the Egyptian Peace Council  and henceforth became a member of the World Peace Council's presidential council in 1958.
  On March 8, 1959, an Arab nationalist rebellion broke out in Mosul, Iraq with the intent of deposing the anti-Nasser and pro-Communist president Abdel Karim Qasim. When it was put down, Nasser's anti-Communism feelings apparently deepened and he accused Mohieddine of supporting Qasim. Nasser subsequently unceremoniously fired him and twelve other editors from Al Messa on March 13. Mohieddine was soon arrested and remained incarcerated until the end of 1960. He became board chairman of Akhbar al-Yawm in 1964. In April 1965, after Nasser began taking a more pro-Soviet stance on domestic affairs, Mohieddine was appointed secretary of the Arab Socialist Union's (ASU) Press Committee. Around this time he also chaired the Aswan High Dam committee and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1970.
caption: Mohieddin addressing members of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council, 1954
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