James B Mayfield: 2 books
Rural Politics in Nasser's Egypt
A Quest for Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
On September 29, 1970, President Gamal Abdel Nasser died of a heart attack. The hysterical outpouring of grief at the state funeral dramatized the depth to which the loss of this charismatic leader shook the Arab world. Few men have achieved the love, prestige, and adulation that Nasser received from...
Field of Reeds
Social, Economic and Political Change in Rural Egypt: in Search of Civil Society and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Have you ever wondered: 1. Who built the Pyramids of Egypt and who are their descendents today? 2. Why does the author challenge the great Greek historian Herodotus, by auguring that Egypt is more a gift from the Fellahin, than a gift of the Nile? 3. What great event happened in the early 1960s that...