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Confronting Fascism in Egypt - Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s (Hardcover)
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Confronting Fascism in Egypt - Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s (Hardcover)
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"Confronting Fascism in Egypt" offers a new reading of the
political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar
era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and
military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers
of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism,
openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and
Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas. The
majority (although not all) of Egyptian voices supported liberal
democracy against the fascist challenge, and most Egyptians sought
to improve and reform, rather than to replace and destroy, the
existing constitutional and parliamentary system.
The authors place Egyptian public discourse in the broader context
of the complex public sphere within which debate unfolded--in
Egypt's large and vibrant network of daily newspapers, as well as
the weekly or monthly opinion journals--emphasizing the open,
diverse, and pluralistic nature of the interwar political and
cultural arena. In examining Muslim views of fascism at the moment
when classical fascism was at its peak, this enlightening book
seriously challenges the recent assumption of an inherent Muslim
predisposition toward authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and
"Islamo-Fascism."
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