?Charles Issawi's third attempt to present an economic analysis of modern Egypt will serve once again as an indispensable guide to the scholarly world. . . . Issawi has collected a considerable amount of information from the admittedly difficult and relatively unreliable Egyptian sources. His chapters on agriculture, national income, industry, communications, foreign trade, and finance contain a wealth of statistical information that is not to be found in any other single work of reference . . . in total, this work is excellent and will doubtlessly be a standard guide for the understanding of modern Egypt.?-American Historial Review