Selma Botman examines the virtually unknown history of communism in Egypt during the twentieth-century. In an original and well-documented study, the author has traced the development of the revolutionary left using political court cases, interviews with political activists, and literature from the communist movement itself.

Selma Botman is provost and vice president of academic affairs at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952.