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

"The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt's manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated. In this book, Amr Adly uses extensive...