Word: fellaheens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Zeezee" & "Safsaf." The Wafd was once the greatest political force in Egypt with a wide following among the people, to whom it promised independence from Britain and a better life. But over the years it grew deeply corrupt. Nahas himself was once a respected leader. The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil. He was a devoted servant of the people, and he lived simply even after he became Premier. Then in 1936 he took as his wife the lovely, ambitious daughter of a landowner. Her name was Zeinab, but Nahas called her "Zeezee." She called...
...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...