The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
by
Hanan Kholoussy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed...