Inside Egypt:
The Land of the Pharaohs
on the Brink of a Revolution
by John R. Bradley
Kindle version
Posted on 07/24/2008 8:27:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egypt has banned a book by a British journalist about Egyptian politics and society entitled "Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution," the author said on Wednesday.
"According to my publisher, The American University in Cairo bookstore ordered 50 copies of Inside Egypt a few days ago, only to cancel the order a few hours later after being informed by Egyptian government censors that the book is banned in Egypt," John R. Bradley said.
The book's New York-based publishers Palgrave Macmillan confirmed the book had been banned in Egypt.
The book "examines the junctions of Egyptian politics and society as they slowly disintegrate under the twin pressures of a ruthless military dictatorship at home and a flawed Middle East policy in Washington," the publishers said in a statement.
It was not possible to get any official confirmation of the ban because Wednesday is a public holiday in Egypt.
(Excerpt) Read more at middle-east-online.com ...
Egypt: On the Brink of Revolution?
—Is the land of the Pharaohs the next domino to fall?
Frontpagemagazine | 4-30-08 | Jamie Glazov
Posted on 04/30/2008 4:59:48 AM PDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009063/posts
Sounds like he's in favour of theocracy - and it's all Bush's fault whatever it is...
There are many causes: extreme poverty, endemic torture, rampant corruption, political oppression, the complete evisceration of the middle class, the theft of the country's vast wealth by the fat cats under the guise of privatization and opening up the economy to foreign investment..."
Egypt has 'vast wealth'? Foreign investment is a bad thing? What am I missing...
Incredibly wealthy. But as in typical third-world countries, the wealth is inaccessible due to lack of a national system of Recorders Offices.
he's been busy...
Incredibly wealthy. But as in typical third-world countries, the wealth is inaccessible due to lack of a national system of Recorders Offices.
'Recorders Offices' - pardon my ingorance...but has that anything to do with most muslim countries not having street names or house numbers? Or, the attitude of muslims 'allah created the resource, but that doesn't mean I have to get my hands dirty digging it up...let someone else do it...?
We have all be ingorated since Algore nearly stole the 2000 national election. They could have properly recorded proper deeds, but they don't, so they have no equity and no credit.
Ownership and transfer of water and land in Islam.LINK.
Land tenure and water rights
Islam began with no administrative machinery; it therefore developed on a customary basis. Land ownership as it exists in Islam was mostly determined by Muslim land laws, which developed during the centuries following the Muslim conquest, largely on the basis of the Byzantine concept of supreme ownership by the ruler of the state...
...snip
Kharaj or conquered lands are cultivated and productive lands on which the kharaj or land tax is levied, as is done on all conquered lands from which the sovereign has neither expelled nor expropriated the inhabitants, whether or not they have converted to Islam. Being the property of the Muslim community, these lands are administered by the khalifa. The owner, in principle, does not hold full title to the property but only enjoys the usufruct from it. Muslim administrative authorities were responsible for all questions dealing with waters on these lands...
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Community property, no private ownership, no wonder the marxists are so comfortable with islam.
Wednesday is a public holiday in Egypt.
I did not know that...
Review
"'Inside Egypt is an original, angry, brilliant, subtle, and highly readable expose of contemporary Egyptian politics and society.' - Peter Bergen, author of Holy War Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know 'A highly informed, temperate, and understanding account of a country that is an enigma.' - The New York Times 'Contributes substantially to the debate.' - Los Angeles Times 'A thoughtful, incisive portrait of a fractured nation...a remarkable volume.' - Newsweek"
Journalist Bradley (Saudi Arabia Exposed, 2005) trains a sharp reportorial eye on the nearly failed nation-state in the cross hairs of world conflict.The author doesn't dwell too long on Egypt's storied past. Instead, he gives a blistering overview of what it's like to live today in this autocratic, hopelessly corrupt society. The Egypt he depicts is a place where anyone can be jailed or tortured at any time for no reason, where Islamic fundamentalism is slowly gaining a foothold among people formerly proud of their diverse heritage, where in some places the only viable form of employment for young men is prostitution, both gay and straight. Bradley also examines why the United States spends $2 billion per year propping up President Hosni Mubarak ("the third-longest-ruling Egyptian leader in the past four thousand years"), despite his crackdowns on anything approaching democracy and his blatant favoring of anything that will bring in more tourist dollars over the best interests of the Egyptian populace. Mubarak is able to gin up American interest, the author notes, by playing up the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, a nominally political organization that provides social services far more efficiently than the government does and wants to reinstate the Caliphate. Needless to say, Bradley isn't hopeful about the future, fearing that an Iranian-style theocracy is in the cards for a once-proud nation whose pedigree dates back more than 5,000 years.Unlikely to win the author any friends among the Egyptian political elite, but terrifically well told and extremely sobering. (Kirkus Reviews)
Library Journal "A devastating critique of Egypt's current dictatorial government."
[By an Arab scholar:] "torture is a way of life" in the Middle East (p. 144)
In Inside Egypt, I argue that the country has effectively been occupied since 1952 by the military. The military have created a system of oppression that has only one goal: perpetuating their own rule and increasing their own wealth and privilege. For this to happen, the Egyptian people must be cowed into subservience through systematic torture and other crude forms of intimidation.
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