Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt
by
Lucie Ryzova
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts who drafted and carried out the state's modernisation...