Egypt: Military Society; the Army Regime, the Left, and Social Change Under Nasser

by Anouar Abdel-Malek

' Military Society' is the story of fifteen years (1952-1967)--the final stage of Egypt's nat8ional revolution--and of the military reime of Nasser's Egypt, full of contradictions, contentions, repression of the Left.

Genres: History, Egypt, Africa, Nonfiction, Middle East

447 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

An Egyptian-French political scientist of Coptic descent . He was a pan-Arabist and Marxist.
Anouar Abdel-Malek gained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1954 from Ain Shams University before studying for a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He subsequently joined the CNRS, becoming head of research there in 1970.

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incisive, detailed, well researched, and way ahead of it's time. Abdel-Malek's analysis (while not perfect) is timeless, and should be read by anyone seeking an authentic Egyptian Marxist understanding of the Nasser period. A classic.

[Kariem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seminal, percipient, thorough. An achievement