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Up-to-date version of a winning introductory textbook - subject matters coated comprise the ideologies of Nasser and Sadat; financial difficulties; the position of Islam; Egyptian tradition and literature.

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They had contacts with other political groups but were not identified with any of those in power nor did they take part in acts of terrorism.  It was one of the saddest periods in her history, when she was to be desolated by a terrible cholera epidemic, and was to have the experience of international isolation, of unpopularity abroad, of defeat and anarchy at home.  Foreign residents, the richer members of the minorities and the Egyptian upper classes continued to lead a pleasant life, visiting Alexandria and Europe for the summer, spending time in clubs and at the races and on the whole enjoying a higher standard of living than they would elsewhere.

In fact their resistance can be said to have directly changed the immediate course of Egyptian history.  There must have been official connivance otherwise why was the police guard at the Turf Club suddenly and deliberately reduced from 40 to 4 at a time when there was a high state of tension in the city?  It was the culmination of seventy years’ impatience.  On 22 July the Free Officers realised that Farouk might be drawing the net in around them.  He sailed into exile on 24 July on the same yacht on which his grandfather Ismail had left for exile some seventy years earlier.

To these three must now be added the period after 1970 of the liberalisation of the economy.  Also a great part of the export surplus was still used to redeem the Public Debt—some 30 per cent of export proceeds were used in this way in the 1900s.  The other privileged group in Egypt was the foreign residents who were protected by the Capitulations—the legal agreements which gave them the right to be tried in their own Consular Courts.  This it did by tariff reform in 1930 which increased the duty on imported goods.

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