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James Toth offers an even-handed account of Sayyid Qutb and shows him to be a much more complex figure than the many one-dimensional portraits would have us believe. Qutb first gained notice as a novelist, literary critic, and poet but then turned to religious and political criticism aimed at...

"This important book rescues Egypt s migrant workers, the tarahil, from their usual neglect. It follows them from the fields into the urban labor market to argue that, in spite of the weakness of their position, they played a significant political and economic role in the turbulent years of the Sadat presidency and beyond."--Roger Owen, Harvard University

Analyzing the role of rural workers in Egypt s economy, James Toth provides a bottom-up account of the country s recent history, including the 1961 agricultural crisis that undermined Nasser s Arab socialism, the 1965-66...