Confronting Fascism in Egypt by Israel Gershoni PAPERBACK 9780804763448

Confronting Fascism in EgyptDictatorship Versus Democracy in the 1930s\nAuthor(s): Israel Gershoni, James Jankowski\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804763448, 978-0804763448\nSynopsis\nConfronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas. The majority (although not all) of Egyptian voices supported liberal democracy against the fascist challenge, and most Egyptians sought to improve and reform, rather than to replace and destroy, the existing constitutional and parliamentary system. \n\n The authors place Egy""