Muhammad Ali speaks at a Nation of Islam convention in Chicago in February 1968.
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Ali remembered in Muslim world as a voice of change
Of all Muhammad Ali’s travels in the Muslim world, his 1964 trip to Egypt was perhaps the most symbolic, a visit remembered mostly by an iconic photo of the boxing great happily shaking hands with a smiling Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Egypt’s nationalist and popular president.