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This week marks the end, 80 years ago, of a very exceptional phase in Egypt's history. For a month, the country was in a state of effervescence: from Alexandria to Aswan, Copts and Muslims united in an uprising that shook the Empire. Peasants, effendis, women, workers and students took to the streets and the fields in a massive show of civil disobedience, cited by Gandhi as an inspiration to the Indian people's struggle for liberation. The British colonial authorities, who had exiled nationalist leader Saad Zaghlul and his colleagues to Malta, were forced to bow to the nation's demands, and allow the Delegation to proceed to Paris, where it was to bring Egypt's aspirations for independence to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the following two pages, Fayza Hassan retraces the events of these unusual days
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The Republic of Zifta
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