title: A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present
author: Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
description: 'The book surverys a dense and complicated history in clear and accessible language, and succeeds in appealing to both scholarly and popular audiences. Marsot writes with the confidence, sensitivity, and at times the sense of humour of one who intimately knows and loves Egypt and its rich history." <br />Heather J. Sharkey, The International History Review
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  Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan For decades, the doctrine of the
  Unity of the Nile Valley united Egyptians of a variety of political and
  nationalist backgrounds. Many Egyptians regarded Sudan as an integral part of
  their homeland, and therefore battled to rid the entire Nile Valley of British
  imperialism and unite its inhabitants under the Egyptian crown. Here, Rami
  Ginat provides a vital and important revised account of the history of Egypt’s
  colonialist struggle and their efforts to prove categorically that the Nile
  Valley constituted a single territorial unit. These were clustered around
  several dominant theoretical layers: history, geography, economy, culture, and
  ethnography. This book, for both Middle Eastern and African historians, uses a
  mixture of Arabic and English sources to critically examine the central stages
  in the historical development of Egypt’s doctrine, concentrating on the
  defining decade (1943–1953) that first witne