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Essay Archive - Egypt : The People
Egypt : The People
Approximately 32,500,000 people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called
fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of
Egypt's land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution
introduced land reform, less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the
land available for farming. Most of the fellahin were tenants or owned very
tiny farms. A man who owned 3 to 5 acres was considered well-off. Now no one
is permitted to own more than 50 acres, and the average Egyptian farm is
generally much smaller than th....
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