HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lavon Affair, Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Of 1936
Document Summary
Different communities living in egypt between the 1930s - 1960s. Semi-autobiographical account at a time of many changes in society. He had to leave the country in the late 50s because of a camp-down on communists. It is his only nished work and was translated a lot. Many critics hailed the work as a masterpiece that captures an important moment in egyptian history: optimism and disappointment in the revolution and the military rule that followed. Talking about the 1930s: this is an urban setting in alexandria and in cairo. There were many communities spread out in egyptian cities. There were large modern projects that needed people. Railway roads and other canals were set up, Alexandria was made rich as a port city thanks to cotton trade, and people had money and wanted to invest. In the early 1930s, a frenchman comes to egypt and is working on an important study to assess the in uence of french around the world.
