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
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804763431; 9780804763448
Subjects: Fascism -- Egypt -- History; Democracy -- Egypt -- History; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919-1952
Description: A new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas.
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.