Confronting fascism in Egypt
Subtitle: dictatorship versus democracy in the 1930s
By: Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski.
Contributors: Jankowski, James P., 1937-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763431; 9780804763448
Subjects: Fascism -- Egypt -- History; Democracy -- Egypt -- History; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919-1952
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Narratives and contexts. Introduction : narratives of modern Egyptian history; title: The historical setting : Egyptian politics in the later 1930s; title: pt. 2. Dictatorship versus democracy in Egyptian public discourse. Prologue : public sphere and public discourse in interwar Egypt; title: The fascist threat as seen in the Egyptian daily press; title: Mockery and terror : fascism and nazism in visual imagery; title: Egyptian intellectuals and fascism, I : fascism at home : denouncing totalitarianism and racism; title: Egyptian intellectuals and fascism, II : fascism in the world : European imperialism in a new style; title: pt 3. Egypt's new effendiyya and fascism. Prologue : the new effendiyya of the 1930s; title: The Muslim brothers consider fascism and nazism; title: The Young Egypt Movement : an Egyptian version of fascism?; title: Conclusion : shifting narratives.