Egypt is almost the size of Britain, France, and Germany combined, yet its nearly 70 million people are forced by geographic factors to live in an area no bigger than Belgium. Only four percent of the land can sustain cultivation and life. In this illuminating book, the authors describe the myriad problems facing Egypt. They look food scarcity, the effects of water and land shortage, the impact of globalization on Egypt's attempts to industrialize, population explosion, massive debt, unemployment, corruption, and Egypt's tourism industry, which is especially vulnerable to Islamist terrorism.
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"very useful and remarkably up-to-date textbook... It certainly fills a gap in the...literature on the geography of North Africa and the Middle East...excellent textbook." -Keith Sutton, Manchester University "A comprehensive and informative synopsis of the economic and social issues of a crucial country within the Arabic world (...) which deserves to be read as widely as possible." -Eckart Ehlers, Erdkunde: German Geographical Journal (translated from German)
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Fouad N. Ibrahim is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Bayreuth.
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THE ancient Egyptians established a unique culture and an unprecedented advanced civilization thousands of years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
landless fellaheen, storage lake, permanent irrigation, hotel capacities, high dam, basin irrigation, agrarian land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Sea, Beni Suef, Suez Canal, Greater Cairo, Upper Egypt, Mohammed Ali, World Bank, Marsa Matruh, Sitta October, Lake Maryut, South Sinai, Basement Complex, New Valley, Port Said, Eastern Desert, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf War, Mediterranean Sea, Ministry of Tourism, Qattara Depression, Gulf of Suez, Nubian Aquifer System, Structural Adjustment Programmes, Coptic Church, Ministry of Agriculture New!
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THE ancient Egyptians established a unique culture and an unprecedented advanced civilization thousands of years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
landless fellaheen, storage lake, permanent irrigation, hotel capacities, high dam, basin irrigation, agrarian land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Sea, Beni Suef, Suez Canal, Greater Cairo, Upper Egypt, Mohammed Ali, World Bank, Marsa Matruh, Sitta October, Lake Maryut, South Sinai, Basement Complex, New Valley, Port Said, Eastern Desert, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf War, Mediterranean Sea, Ministry of Tourism, Qattara Depression, Gulf of Suez, Nubian Aquifer System, Structural Adjustment Programmes, Coptic Church, Ministry of Agriculture New!
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- Directions of Change in Rural Egypt by Nicholas S. Hopkins on 6 pages
- Civil Society in the Middle East (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol 50) by Augustus Richard Norton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak by P.J. Vatikiotis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Survey of Climatology by John F. Griffiths in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Climates of Africa (World Survey of Climatology Volume 10) by J. Griffiths in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The African City: A History (New Approaches to African History) by Bill Freund on page 66
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