Kamāl Shātīlā, chairman of the Lebanese Popular Congress, said in an interview with “al-Waṭan” that the death of President Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir was a total catastrophe for Egypt, the Arab nation, and the third world countries, stressing that Nāṣir was a symbol for the dreamers of freedom and national independence during the 1950s and 1960s. Nāṣir stood for the constant principles of tolerant religiosity, national independence and freedom, citizenship, social justice, and Arab unity.