Examines the results of the Middle Eastern oil boom of the 1970s–80s on the Egyptian economy and how this economic growth has an impact on Egyptian society.
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Relli Shechter is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He trained as an economic historian and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Smoking, Culture and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market, 1850–2000 (2006).
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