Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changing Habits. The only jarring note in Mahmud's success story is that he now has eleven children and his wife is pregnant once more. Egyptian leaders are fighting to limit families. In doing so, they must dispel a traditional Arab conviction that many sons must be born for a family to prosper, because so many die of childhood diseases. Thanks to a growing system of state-run clinics in rural areas, the high fatality rate is declining. With support from more progressive Islamic leaders, the government has set up birth control clinics, where a month's supply...
...long run, though, Aswan and its electricity output may turn out to be more effective. Within the next five years, more than 4,000 Egyptian villages will have electricity for the first time in history; in those that already have lights and television, there has been a change in nighttime habits. Already a slight drop in birth rates has been reported. "They have other ways to spend the time now," says a social worker...
...Leila Abou Seif, 31, a TV director who uses Western cinematic techniques to explore Egyptian themes. Her latest film is Egypt's favorite subject now: a moving paean to the wounded soldiers of the October...
...social structure. "We haven't fully decided how much freedom we really want," admits one Cairo editor. "How can you have a fully free press without pornography? How can you have social freedom without permissiveness? How can you give freedom to foreign industrialists and not to Egyptian industrialists...
Abandoning Nasser. This new freedom will dramatically affect Egyptian women. Until recently, most girls stayed uneducated at home, in keeping with Islamic tradition. There is still a Moslem bloc that favors keeping women in this state. When the National Assembly recently debated a divorce bill, students from the 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University demonstrated in protest. But the liberation of women in Egypt's increasingly open society is inevitable. One-fourth of Egypt's 200,000 university students are coeds, and 74% of all women graduates are working. More pantsuits than veils are seen these days...