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I am very grateful to be asked to give a lecture which carries such an illustrious name. I first came across George Antonius’s famous book The Arab Awakening, in its Arabic translation, when I was nineteen. I had just joined the Baath Party which, I must say, was a very different thing at that time from what it is now. We were only three or four Egyptian members of the party at the time, and we were given free copies of George Antonius’s book, and asked to read it as an essential part of the education of young Arab nationalists. And indeed it was.
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Lord Cromer: Ancient and Modern Imperialism, New York: Longman, 1910, p. 113, quoted in Charles Issawi, An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa, London: Methuen, 1982, p. 13.
Owen, R.: The Middle East in the World Economy: 1800–1914, London: Methuen, 1981, p. 25.
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Janet Abu-Lughod: Cairo: One Thousand Years of the City Victorious, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. See also G. Amin, ‘Evolution and Shifts in Egypt’s Economic Policies in Search of a Pattern’, in S. Ibrahim, A. Onchu and C. Keyder, Developmentalism and Beyond, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1994.
See D. Seers, ‘Rich Contents and Poor’, in D. Seers and L. Joy, Development in a Divided World, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, pp. 15–16.
A. Al-Nasrawi, The Iraqi Economy: 1950–2010, (in Arabic) Beirut: Dar Al-Konouz, 1995, p. 110.
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Amin, G. (2000). Two Centuries of Arab Economic Relations with the West: 1798–1997. In: Hopwood, D. (eds) Arab Nation, Arab Nationalism. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62765-3_8
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