The Middle East: Leadership and Identity (Egypt)

Duration: 0:21:00

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Looks at modern Egypt, emphasizing the economic gap between city dweller and village farmers, the growing population, and new government programs for improving the future of the country and its people. Shows rural agricultural production, the textile industry, the serious housing shortage, and methods of housing construction. Studies the cultural changes taking place as communication and education develop and spread to rural areas, creating a middle class. Surveys the economic developments and the need for industrial growth and a time of peace.

Complete Record: , Looks at modern Egypt, emphasizing the economic gap between city dweller and village farmers, the growing population, and new government programs for improving the future of the country and its people. Shows rural agricultural production, the textile industry, the serious housing shortage, and methods of housing construction. Studies the cultural changes taking place as communication and education develop and spread to rural areas, creating a middle class. Surveys the economic developments and the need for industrial growth and a time of peace.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.