Confronting fascism in Egypt : dictatorship versus democracy in the 1930s / Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Narratives and contexts. Introduction : narratives of modern Egyptian history -- The historical setting : Egyptian politics in the later 1930s -- part 2. Dictatorship versus democracy in Egyptian public discourse. Prologue : public sphere and public discourse in interwar Egypt -- The fascist threat as seen in the Egyptian daily press -- Mockery and terror : fascism and Nazism in visual imagery -- Egyptian intellectuals and fascism, I : fascism at home : denouncing totalitarianism and racism -- Egyptian intellectuals and fascism, II : fascism in the world : European imperialism in a new style -- pt 3. Egypt's new effendiyya and fascism. Prologue : the new effendiyya of the 1930s -- The Muslim brothers consider fascism and Nazism -- The Young Egypt Movement : an Egyptian version of fascism? -- Conclusion : shifting narratives.