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- 1 2 3 Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam, and the Egyptian working class, 1882 - 1954 . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. pp. 232-233
- ↑ Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam, and the Egyptian working class, 1882 - 1954 . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. pp. 233-234
- ↑ Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam, and the Egyptian working class, 1882 - 1954 . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. pp. 235-236
- ↑ Beinin, Joel, and Zachary Lockman. Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam, and the Egyptian working class, 1882 - 1954 . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. pp. 237-238
