The soft state -- Corruption -- The economy -- The poor -- The pashas -- The middle class -- The intellectuals -- The press -- Religious discourse -- Alienation -- Mubarak's successor -- Egypt and the Arabs -- Egypt and the United States

Although the last three decades represent only the most recent episode of Egypt's "opening up to the world", their impact on the Egyptian economy and society seems much wider and goes much deeper than anything that Egypt had experienced before, this justifies the use of the relatively new term...