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By Rushdi Said
One in all Egypt's top recognized geologists, Rushdi stated used to be, below President Gamal Abd al-Nasser, a major reputable and head of the nationwide mining association, which was once accountable for surveying the Egyptian deserts for mineral deposits.
This own memoir throws attention-grabbing gentle not just at the geological surveys and mining initiatives of the time, yet on Nasser's coverage of industrialization - of which acknowledged was once an enthusiastic supporter. He examines the impression on that industrialization of President Sadat's Open Door coverage, which stated sees as an immediate out-growth of the extreme monetary drawback attributable to the 1973 October warfare. acknowledged is important of Sadat's choice to prioritize tourism and the provider industries on the fee of producing undefined, and relates how this,, including expanding corruption from the mid-1970s onward, pressured him to renounce. The fruits of the situation got here in 1981, whilst, simply weeks earlier than his assassination, Sadat ordered the arrest of acknowledged and a few 1,500 different public, spiritual, and political figures.
As a guy relied on and revered by means of Nasser, acknowledged is in a privileged place to offer and eyewitness account of many very important points of Egypt's contemporary background, yet his personal heritage - his relatives, schooling, transforming into self-awareness as a Copt, and wider issues approximately Copts in Egyptian society - can also be revealing and insightful.
A own mirrored image on a existence lived and a resource of contemporary historical past, this publication can be of curiosity to political and fiscal historians and to a person drawn to what it was once wish to pass though Egypt's fresh earlier.
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These principles were instilled in the members by the frequent elections that the Boys’ Department ran for all its positions. The elections gave every member of the group the chance to participate in the running of its affairs. I ran for many of these positions. During the election campaigns that I conducted, I learned how to present a case, conduct a debate, and accept the will of the majority. Engaging in sports was of paramount importance to me. I reached a high degree of proficiency in basketball and volleyball and, to a lesser degree, in tennis.
This makes them easy prey for extremist movements, whose history goes back to the Middle Ages when Ibn Taymiya (1263–1328), the Muslim theologian, laid down their foundation with his fatwas (religious edicts), which are still reverberating to this day. All these movements share common traits. They are secretive and have a jargon of their own awash with slogans. Their members are taught to obey their assigned leaders and to follow strict rules that are intended to drill into them the belief that they live in a hostile and unjust world of non-believers who do not wish them 42 | THE FORMATIVE YEARS Science and Politics in Egypt 4/10/04 0:00 Page 43 well.
During that period the king frequently used his authority to dissolve parliament and to discharge the majority Wafd government from office. Not a single parliament during this period finished its term and there is even one that was dissolved on the very day it was elected (the parliament of March 12, 1925). Many stayed for less than a year. The Wafd party, which won the majority of seats in every election that was conducted during the thirty-year period between 1923 and 1952 (with the exception of the 1938 elections that it boycotted), was only allowed to stay in power for a total of less than seven years.