Word: nasserism
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Swallowed Revenues. Of all Egyptians, the industrial worker has fared the best under Nasser. Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land. It was the jest of 1952 that Nasser's foremost ambition was to raise the fellahin at least to the living standard of the gamoosa, the water buffalo of the Nile. He has more than succeeded. You can see it simply in the fellah's clothes. But also the fellah, who used to have meat only once or twice a year, now eats it at least once a week...
...Nasser Egypt, the most common characteristic of the fellahin was summed up in the phrase anna mail, which roughly translates, "I couldn't care less." Today the word heard over and over is nahdha, a term meaning to sit up and take notice of the world around you. Egypt has been awake, taking notice and participating since the hot summer morning in July 1952, when Nasser and a group of young army officers put an end to the regime of King Farouk...
...fact is that Nasser is not totally dependent on any one power or group of powers. He is still determinedly nonaligned. But things are better than the word implies. A few years ago, Nasser was nonaligned toward the East; today, he is more accurately regarded as non-aligned toward the West...
Happy Nausea. But Nasser's one-man rule has not brought unmitigated bliss to Egypt. The banks and insurance companies were nationalized, and their owners paid off partly in bonds that may not be redeemed for years to come. Contractors whose earnings reach $69,000 a year are taken over, or forced to accept joint participation by the government. Wiped out are the great landowners; farm holdings are now limited to 100 acres per family. This form of socialism is benign enough. It leaves most of the nation's commerce in private hands and does not affect...
...press was nationalized in 1960, and its editors are picked by the regime; they, of course, do not criticize Nasser's policies. Political activity in the usual sense is banned because, as Nasser puts it, "if I had three political parties, one would be run by the rich, one by the Soviets, and one by the U.S." The only party permitted by law is the official Arab...