Verdicts on Nasser.

Was Nasser good for Egypt? Is he the "charismatic and dynamic president that put Egypt back on the map?"

I believe, after reading Sources A through F and looking at the image in Source G, that Nasser was the "charismatic and dynamic president that put Egypt back on the map." Charismatic is a characteristic that refers to someone's ability to influence people and attract people to them, and it is very evident from 4 of the sources. Source C (obituary headline) says that he had "Hypnotic Power" over the Egyptians, which can be seen because he was able to create a number of changes during only his 18 years of leadership. Source E (from a book by an Egyptian writer) says he "signaled to the nation and it awoke; signaled to the army and it moved.." and so on, showing his great influential ways and the fact that he had power and control and was able to achieve. This source even mentions the word charisma. Source F (by another Egyptian writer) states that he "overwhelmed us with his magic", so it's evident from all of this, plus the fact that Source F mentions that Egypt had the strongest military in the Middle East, that at least from the Egyptian perspective (and regarding the matter, their perspective matters most), Nasser was influential, great, and had turned Egypt into a notable country, given that he increased military power significantly, was able to get rid of the monarchy, and according to Source A (Amin Howeidi), loved the common man. Source D, from the Minister of Public Health, calls Nasser "considerate, frank and decisive". It doesn't appear that, although his place on the political spectrum was relatively far to the left and he was trying to align Egypt with the Communist world, that he was that detrimental and it seems, at least from the perspective of an Egyptian as well as my perspective as an outsider, that he seems to have made something out of Egypt. The only setback, and counterclaim, being what Source B refers to when it mentions that Egypt was not victorious in war in 1967 (and this statement also came from an Egyptian, Hussein Dhu'l Fiqar Sabri, who wrote to an Egyptian weekly newspaper in 1975). So Nasser did have his weaknesses as well and might have overestimated Egypt's power, even though he had made progress and he was liked overall. This is evident also in Source G, given the picture of his funeral shows that many, many people attended.