Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gains from the Aswan Dam have been swallowed up by Egypt's population, it should be noted that this project was not an unmitigated benefit. Although the dam made possible the cultivation of 1.3 million acres of formerly arid land, it stands accused of several disasters. The Egyptian Mediterranean fisheries have been virtually wiped out because the nutritional sediment washing downstream that formerly sustained sea life is now silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been an alarming spread of schistosomiasis. Also...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has so far refrained from joining the chorus of anti-Nasser abuse. Significantly, he has also taken no steps to suppress it. It is no secret in Cairo that Sadat has long felt that Nasser's particular brand of socialism and his costly foreign policy adventures (such as his military intervention in the Congo and Yemen civil wars) blocked Egypt's economic progress. Sadat gradually closed the country's concentration camps; many political leaders imprisoned by Nasser have been rehabilitated and returned to positions of power. Mustafa Amin, who was released from prison...
...Moslem sectors of Beirut, portraits of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser are plastered on hundreds of buildings. No fewer than four separate factions in the Lebanese civil war proudly define themselves as "Nasserite." In Libya, there are almost as many posters of Nasser with his fiery eyes gazing down at the public as there are of the country's mercurial military strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Throughout much of the Arab world, in fact, the late Egyptian leader is passionately venerated as a modern prophet -but not, curiously, in his own country...
...though, Egyptians are more likely to revile than revere him. Symbolic of the change in attitude is an increasing number of Egyptian books, articles and speeches that have cast Nasser in the guise of a latter-day Ivan the Terrible, guilty of misrule and injustices...
...Communists and Nasserites, Egyptian Communist Writer Fathi Abdel Fattah tells of leftists imprisoned during Nasser's reign who were not allowed to wear shoes even while being forced to do hard labor in desert areas infested by scorpions and snakes. Another anti-Nasser book, called Second Grade in Prison by Mustafa Amin, a prominent rightist who spent nine years in Nasser's jails, charges that 21 political prisoners were murdered in their cells in 1957 simply because they refused to do hard labor...