{"product_id":"egypt-a-narrative-history-of-post-colonial-leaders-1952-2026","title":"Egypt — A Narrative History of Post-Colonial Leaders (1952–2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho guards the state, and who guards the guardians?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the night of 22–23 July 1952, a group of young officers took Cairo almost without a shot, and at about half past seven in the morning Anwar Sadat read their first statement on the radio. Three days later King Farouk sailed into exile. What followed was seventy-four years in which the army that moved that night decided, again and again, who ruled Egypt: a general pushed aside by his own officers, a lieutenant-colonel who seized the Suez Canal and lost Sinai, a president who crossed the canal and then flew to Jerusalem, thirty years of emergency law ended by eighteen days of protest, a civilian elected in a free contest and removed by the army a year later, and a field marshal who built a second canal and a new capital — and paid for them with debt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEgypt: A Narrative History of Post-Colonial Leaders\u003c\/i\u003e tells that story as a story — chronological, human and sourced. Six acts, named as the book names them: The General Who Was Pushed Aside, The Voice of the Arabs, The Crossing, The Long Stability, The Revolution and the Brotherhood, and The New Republic — to 30 July 2026, when the IMF Executive Board completed the seventh review of Egypt's programme and found its economy resilient to the war in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eThe deep past — Kemet, \"the black land\", the Narmer Palette and the pyramids of Giza, the Black pharaohs of Kush, Fustat and Cairo, Muhammad Ali's modern state, the canal and the debt, the bombardment of Alexandria, the revolution of 1919, the paper independence of 1922 and the road to July\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe national emblem — the eagle of Saladin, the red, white and black of the revolution of 1952, and \"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady\", the anthem Sayed Darwish set to music in 1923\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSix illustrated acts, from the night of 23 July 1952 to the IMF's seventh review in July 2026 — land reform and the fall of Naguib, Nasser's canal, High Dam and defeat of 1967, Sadat's crossing, Jerusalem and Camp David, Mubarak's long emergency and the eighteen days of 2011, Morsi's year and Rabaa, and Sisi's second canal, new capital, floats and Gaza mediation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe country beneath the presidents — the river and the crowd, bread, the mosque and the church, the women who changed Egypt, Umm Kulthum and Naguib Mahfouz, the Pharaohs and Mohamed Salah, the Grand Egyptian Museum, and the millions who left to work abroad\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVerified quotes from Egypt's leaders, and 54 key-fact cards on the pages that carry no picture or quote\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA chronology, a table of nine leaders (six presidents, an acting and an interim president, and the military council of 2011–12), 72 source notes and a reader's guide of 136 entries — books, scholarly articles, reports and primary sources\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLessons in Leadership — what the country's best and worst moments teach those who lead, and an epilogue on the latest official data to September 2026 (CAPMAS, the Ministry of Planning, the Central Bank of Egypt, the IMF)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe recurring patterns — the army as arbiter, the canal as fortune and target, the rescue from outside, bread as the limit of power, the emergency that never ends, the opening that closes, peace as policy, and the river beneath everything\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA clear, sourced introduction for anyone who wants to understand Egypt, North Africa and the Arab world, and how an old state is ruled and renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you get:\u003c\/b\u003e the book in PDF and EPUB in one ZIP file, DRM-free, instant download. Future updates are included with your purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KemetLeads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67445992063204,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/7023\/5620\/files\/KL_HoS_Egypt_1952-2026_cover.jpg?v=1791054725","url":"https:\/\/boutique.kemetleads.com\/products\/egypt-a-narrative-history-of-post-colonial-leaders-1952-2026","provider":"KemetLeads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}