Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts
by: Robert Springborg

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 297 pages. Focusing on the family and career of the prominent Egyptian politician Sayed Bey Marei, Robert Springborg provides in this volume a political ethnography on the changing roles of the family and other social units in Egypt's political economy. He traces the rise to power of the rural nobility from the late nineteenth century, demonstrating how members of this class used family, regional, patron-client, and small-group loyalties to maintain and enhance their powers and privileges under the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. In this context the author also investigates the complexities between provincial and national politics, and between the bureaucratic/technocratic elite and the political elite of the country. Clean copy.