By Galal Amin
A brand new, provocative ebook from the writer of Whatever occurred to the Egyptians?
Galal Amin once more turns his cognizance to the shaping of Egyptian society and the Egyptian kingdom within the half-century and extra that has elapsed because the Nasserite revolution, this time targeting the period of President Mubarak.
As traditional, he orders his chapters thematically, addressing such urgent concerns as corruption, poverty, the plight of the center classification, and naturally, the financial system. alongside the best way, he directs his penetrating gaze towards the Mubarak regime's uneasy dating with the fairly loose press it has inspired, the vexing factor of presidential succession, and Egypt's family with the Arab international and the us. Addressing such issues from the viewpoint of an lively player in Egyptian highbrow existence in the course of the period, Galal Amin portrays the Mubarak regime's stance within the household and foreign arenas as greatly a made from background, which, whereas now not exonerating the regime, definitely is helping to provide an explanation for it.
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Likewise were building regulations, tax laws, and hiring and promotion regulations in both the government and the public sector. The situation was not merely one of low motivation for breaking the law; the Egyptian state in the 1950s and 1960s was also capable of thwarting any attempt at lawbreaking. When, in the mid-1960s, a high government official said, “the law should be given a vacation,” he did not mean allowing people to do as they pleased, but exactly the opposite: he meant that if any law existed that forbade the government from imposing its will on the people or protected them from its interference in their lives, then that law should be given a holiday.
The lust for power did indeed hurt the public good, and Egypt saw many examples of this in the 1960s. One of the most important of these was the choice of a head of the armed forces with no qualifications for the job except the president’s confidence that he would not lead a revolt against him, or the president’s appointment of a vice president—without consulting anyone—for reasons that must have had little to do with concern for public welfare. Once this vice president had become president, corruption of the money-hungry kind surpassed any that Egypt had witnessed in Nasser’s era or under the monarchy.
Ritual and outward appearance were elevated above moral commitment, and Muslims became increasingly prepared to abuse Copts without provocation, causing the Copts increased anxiety. In such a climate, is it any wonder that corruption would grow at an unprecedented rate? It was as if the heart failed and blood stopped being pumped to various parts of the body, which became subject to decomposition. It was as if the state, defeated in 1967, became so fearful of the rich that it was ready to overlook their caprices, and to permit them and others to smuggle banned goods into Egypt and large amounts of cash out.