The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class —— Socio-economic Mobility And Public Discontent From Nasser To Sadat

----- 埃及中产阶级的崛起：从纳赛尔到萨达特的社会经济流动性和公众不满

ISBN: 9781108613835 出版年：2018 页码：288 Relli Shechter Cambridge University Press

During the 1970s and early 1980s, egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growth hardly registered in egyptian public discourse, which continuously claimed that the country was experiencing multiple economic, social, and cultural crises. This book sets out to investigate this discrepancy and to offer a revisionist history of the period. It documents the massive socio-economic mobility in egypt by analysing relevant statistical data and ethnographic evidence, indicating the changes in the employment structure and the spread of mass consumption. Relli shechter further examines a wide array of cultural resources, such as egyptian academic writing, the press, the cinema, and the literature, in which critics lamented 'what went wrong' in egypt.