Word: fellaheen
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...fellaheen, who make up more than half of Egypt's population, the threat of Israel is as remote and unreal as any hope of improvement in their ancient way of life or freedom from their backbreaking, dawn-to-dark work on the land. The war is brought home daily to Cairenes in the shabbiness of their once-exciting city, in the tomblike echoes of the airport terminal, in the empty streets of the Moussky shopping district, where donkeys now outnumber tourists?and in the constant shortages. For four years the capital's citizens have endured three consecutive meatless days...
Younis has bought new equipment, trimmed the canal banks with the help of 30,000 fellaheen digging by hand, and dredged the canal to the old maximum depth of 35 feet. The workmen, pilots and supervisory staff are paid from booming revenues. Younis says the authority took in about $110 million last year, and paid $15 million into Nasser's treasury as profit. His hastily recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement...
...recent Rockefeller Foundation study reports that the living standard of the Egyptian peasants or fellaheen is below that of peasants in India and China. Naguib has the overwhelming support of these peasants as well as of the army, Frye stated...
...false to think of land reform as a panacea for Egypt," Frye said. Although it will relieve some of the feudal disparity between classes, "only a small percentage of the fellaheen will get land." An ominous note: "The cotton crop will fall to places...
...think of the old man as a hero. This week Naguib took his case to the people. He started on a three-day whistle-stop tour through small towns where Nahas' hold had always been greatest. The reception for Naguib exceeded anything reporters in Egypt had ever seen. Fellaheen along the Nile streamed out of the fields, shouting that Naguib is the "Savior of Egypt, Savior of the Farmers, Gift of Allah." Hundreds of villagers crowded in front of Naguib's Chevrolet convertible and tried to climb in to hug him. The police had to use rifle butts...