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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class - Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Paperback)
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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class - Socio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Paperback)
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During the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic
growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic
growth hardly registered in Egyptian public discourse, which
continuously claimed that the country was experiencing multiple
economic, social, and cultural crises. This book sets out to
investigate this discrepancy and to offer a revisionist history of
the period. It documents the massive socio-economic mobility in
Egypt by analysing relevant statistical data and ethnographic
evidence, indicating the changes in the employment structure and
the spread of mass consumption. Relli Shechter further examines a
wide array of cultural resources, such as Egyptian academic
writing, the press, the cinema, and the literature, in which
critics lamented 'what went wrong' in Egypt. By doing so, he offers
a local version of a wider Middle Eastern and international story:
the global formation of middle-class societies whose members strove
for respectable lives with only partial success.
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