Egypt And Its Future

“Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended.” —Choice Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Schielke challenges prevailing views of Muslim piety, showing that religious lives are part of a much more complex lived experience. “This wonderful book brings fresh insights into the anthropology of hope in general and Egypt in particular. It makes a rewarding read for scholars interested in how life and all its ambiguities and aspirations unfold under changing notions of religious commitment, new regimes of circulation, and emerging patterns of consumption.” —American Anthropologist “An altogether innovative, compelling, and sensitive perspective on what is perhaps the most important question facing young people in the Middle East today: how to make a life in rapidly shifting, complex times whose future is uncertain.” —Jessica Winegar, author of Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt

Monograph on economic and social development in Egypt, with particular reference to population growth problems - covers the egypt-Israel conflict in 1973, standard of living, women's rights, family planning, industrialization and emigration, discusses agricultural production, water supply, food shortage, urban planning in cairo, transportation and housing, and outlines economic planning relating to foreign investment, de-nasserization, development aid among Arab country, etc. Bibliography pp. 110 and 111, diagrams, maps, statistical tables.

This report summarizes Egypt's recent economic progress, highlights key opportunities and challenges currently facing its government and people, and outlines a strategy for securing its future prosperity on the brink of a new millennium. On the external front, it emphasizes reforming the trade regime, boosting exports, and entering into a partnership agreement with the European Union. On the domestic front, it outlines a range of structural reforms to promote higher savings and productive investment and policies to ensure that macroeconomic stability is maintained.

The liberatory sentiment that stoked the Arab Spring and saw the ousting of long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak seems a distant memory. Democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi lasted only a year before he was forced from power to be replaced by precisely the kind of authoritarianism protestors had been railing against in January 2011. Paradoxically, this turn of events was encouraged by the same liberal activists and intelligentsia who’d pushed for progressive reform under Mubarak. This volume analyses how such a key contingent of Egyptian liberals came to develop outright illiberal tendencies. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together experts in Middle East studies, political science, philosophy, Islamic studies and law to address the failure of Egyptian liberalism in a holistic manner – from liberalism’s relationship with the state, to its role in cultivating civil society, to the role of Islam and secularism in the cultivation of liberalism. A work of impeccable scholarly rigour, Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism reveals the contemporary ramifications of the state of liberalism in Egypt.

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Economy and Industry, grade: 1.0, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: The Arab Spring indicated a massive change in the political economic, and social structure of the Middle East. When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia he was unaware that he had sparked a social and political shift across the Middle East. Soon after protests began in Egypt and it was clear that the Middle East would never be the same. Many of the biggest issues concerning the revolution were what to do after it ends. In this period of recovery, a transition from Mubarak’s dictatorship to a new regime and the transition from a corrupt economic system to a new one would have to occur. Egypt now faces a future of a transition and, as in any transition, steps forward must be taken cautiously and all possibilities for the future considered.

"Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life" is a treatise on the subject by Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge. It is intended to place before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works. The literature of Egypt which deals with these subjects is large and, as was to be expected, the product of different periods which, when taken together, cover several thousands of years making it necessary to reconcile the statements and beliefs of a writer of one period with those of a writer of another.