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The Mirage: Dreams Of Utopia In The Deserts Of Egypt And Greater Cairo’S Chaotic Reality, Michael Bufano
The Mirage: Dreams Of Utopia In The Deserts Of Egypt And Greater Cairo’S Chaotic Reality, Michael Bufano
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In the 1974 October Working Papers, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (1970-1981) announced that the government would launch an ambitious developmental project to populate the desert outside the Nile River Valley. Sadat hoped that this new urban development policy would solve the country's problems with urban congestion and provide access to housing and jobs for a rapidly growing population. A cornerstone of this new public policy was that the government would use America's suburban model and foreign direct investment to aid planners in the cultivation and settlement of the desert. After Sadat's death in 1981, his successors Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011) and …
Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat
Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat
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The nature of the Arab state has been one that has perplexed many scholars.