The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class Shechter Hardback 9781108474481

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class\n\nSocio-economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat\n\nExamines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s\u201380s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.\n\nRelli Shechter (Author)\n\n9781108474481, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 20 December 2018\n\n280 pages\n23.5 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.58 kg\n\n'Through a thorough investigation of the socio-economic mobility, employment structure, and the spread of consumption, The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class lays the foundations for the corrective argument that the oil boom, not Sadat's open door policies, was the driving force behind the social transformations in Post-Nasser Egypt. With a wealth of statistical data ethnographic evidence, and profound historical analysis, Shechter produced a wonderful and long-awaited contribution to the study of the Egyptian society since President Sadat.' Hanan Hammad, Addra]