Egypt: The Stalled SocietyThis book presents new and original insights into the political, social, and economic development of today’s Egypt. The case study of Kamshish, a small village in the heart of the Delta, sheds light on the recent social history of Egypt and the evolving relations between Egyptian rulers and people. Highlighted is the “Kamshish Affair,” during which the village appeared to be at the threshold of a socialist revolution destined to engulf the whole country, if not the entire region. Kamshish became the Mecca of the Left, to which such luminaries as Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir paid homage. When the expected revolution failed to materialize, the state stepped in with a “new beginning,” whose conservatism stands in sharp contrast to the radicalist trends of the 1960s. |
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المحتويات
Power and Ideology in the Life of a Local Community | 19 |
The Widening Rural Gap during the Prerevolutionary Era | 57 |
Closing the Social Gap 19521966 | 79 |
The Rural Elites in Balance | 97 |
The Compromise | 141 |
The Corrective Movement | 153 |
Undoing Nasserism | 171 |
The Food Riots | 185 |
Postscript | 241 |
Appendixes | 247 |
Factors Influencing Patterns of Property Distribution | 249 |
C The Secret Correspondence of Kamshish | 251 |
D Samples of the Confidential Reports Submitted to the Higher Committee for the Liquidation of Feudalism | 255 |
E Families with Local Influence Investigated by the HCLF in 1966 | 263 |
Notes | 267 |
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Retraditionalization behind the Liberal Mask | 195 |
The Political Expediency of Religion | 211 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
A'yan Abdel agrarian reform law agricultural cooperative al-Ahram al-Fiqqi al-Musawwar Ali Sabri Arab Socialist Union army ASU committees ASU's Asyut authorities big landowners bureaucracy Cairo Council deputies desequestration distribution district Egyptian elections Executive Bureau faction faddans family members feudalists Fiqqi family former Governorate HCLF HCLF investigations hundred faddans Ibid ideology Ikhwan infitah influence Islamic Jama'at Kamshish Affair Kibar al-A'yan land landlords landownership large landowners leaders liberal majority Maqlad Marxists militants military minister Minufiyya Muhammad Muslim Brotherhood Nasser Nasserist Nasserist regime National Assembly officers owners ownership peasants People's Assembly percent political prerevolutionary President provincial retraditionalization revealed revolutionary ruling elites rural areas rural elites rural notables Sabri Sadat Salah Husain second stratum sequestration Shahinda Shaykh Siraj al-Din small farmers social stratum Tajamu Tanzim tenants tion traditional Umda Upper Egypt upper stratum families Urabi revolt urban village Wafd Wafdist Zawiya