''The Egyptian Peasant'' is a book by

Henry Habib Ayrout Henry Habib Ayrout, S.J. (1907 – April 10, 1969) was an author, educator, and Jesuit priest in Egypt. His father Habib Ayrout was a Syro-Lebanese Egyptian architect practicing in Cairo, Egypt. After being educated in Paris as an engineer-archit ...

about the life of the Egyptian peasant (''

fellah A fellah ( ar, فَلَّاح ; feminine ; plural ''fellaheen'' or ''fellahin'', , ) is a peasant, usually a farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. The word derives from the Arabic word for "ploughman" or "tiller". ...

''). It is regarded as a major work on the subject.Timothy Mitchell
"The Invention and Reinvention of the Egyptian Peasant"
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International Journal of Middle East Studies The ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'' is a scholarly journal published by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), a learned society. See also * Middle East Research and Information Project * Association for th ...

'' 22 (1990), 129-150.

Halim Barakat Halim Barakat ( ar, حليم بركات) is an Arab novelist and sociologist. He was born December 4, 1936, into a Greek-Orthodox Arab family in Kafroun, Syria, and raised in Beirut.''Biography for the Arab Pioneers in America'', Barakat, Halim, ...

has described it as "unsympathetic and biased".

History of the publication

The book was first published in France, in 1938, under the title ''Moeurs et coutumes des fellahs''. After that, the book went through some revisions, and translations by the author, for the English audience. It was also translated to Arabic. The book was published in English-speaking countries in 1963.

References

1938 non-fiction books Egyptian non-fiction books History books about Egypt {{Egypt-hist-book-stub