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Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?

David Sims

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9789774166686

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774166686.001.0001

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A Roll Call of Desert Schemes and Dreams, 1952 to 2014

A Roll Call of Desert Schemes and Dreams, 1952 to 2014

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(p.35) 2 A Roll Call of Desert Schemes and Dreams, 1952 to 2014
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Egypt's Desert Dreams
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David Sims

Timothy Mitchell

Publisher:
American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774166686.003.0002

This chapter rapidly reviews the roll-out of various schemes to develop Egypt’s desert for agriculture, urban development, tourism and industry/mines from 1952–2014. It shows an increasing emphasis of splashy megaprojects and the need to shift millions of inhabitants out of the Nile Valley.

Keywords:   Schemes, Megaprojects, Agriculture, Urban development, Tourism, Industry, Mines, Nile Valley

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