book chapter
Shatr Muhammad Shalashil
Struggle for change in a Nubian community; John G. Kennedy ; with the assistance of Hussein M. Fahim • Palo Alto, Calif. • Published In 1971 • Pages: 69-169
By: Shalashil, Shatr Muhammad.
Abstract
This autobiography of a community leader highlights the ways he influenced the pace of socioeconomic changes in a government-planned village for resettling Nubian farmers whose fields and orchards were lost under the rising waters of the Aswan Dam after it was raised in 1933. This individual played a critical role in infrastructure development by mobilizing villagers in effective collective actions for receiving promised compensation, public funds, and state support. There is commentary on the personal characteristics and skills that brought him to the fore as an agent of change and a social entrepreneur.
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Northern Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Community Organizer
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field Date
- 1963-1965
- Coverage Date
- 1925-1965
- Coverage Place
- Alexandria, Cairo and northern Aswan Governate, Egypt
- Notes
- Shatr Muhammad Shalashil
- LCCN
- 76028115
- LCSH
- Ethnology--Nubia