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Egypt's Desert Dreams - Development or Disaster? (New Edition) (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Egypt's Desert Dreams - Development or Disaster? (New Edition) (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts
as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new
farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new
development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a
century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of
people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the
desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures
and ever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at
best, and today Egypt's desert is littered with stalled schemes,
abandoned projects, and forlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly
uninhabited. Egypt's Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kind
to look at Egypt's desert development in its entirety. It recounts
the failures of governmental schemes, analyzes why they have
failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt's desert projects, as
well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behind
it, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is
not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could
take.
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