Lessons for Today from Egypt’s Post-Independence Industrialization

Many of the important tools used for development in post-independence Egypt have been buried today. Post-Colonialisms Today researchers Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam pull from their work on the era to point to some tools that should be recovered, such as a coordinating role for the state in development.

Produced and edited by Regions Refocus (Cinthia Chen, Editor). Filmed at the Post-Colonialisms Today Intergenerational Dialogue in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2019), by Kijiweni Productions (Amil Shivji, Producer; Wilson Rumisha, Production Manager). Learn more about the project at bit.ly/WhatIsPCT