This book examines the causes and consequences of the many crises within the Egyptian political, sociological, economic and moral legacy and the strategies which Mubarak's government has devised to cope with that legacy.

Chapter 1 Government and the State in Egypt Today, Nazih N. Ayubi; Chapter 2 The Role of the Official Opposition, Mona Makram Ebeid; Chapter 3 Political Crisis and Political Conflict in Post-1967 Egypt, Hani Shukrallah; Chapter 4 Migration, Inflation and Social Mobility: A Sociological Interpretation of Egypt's Current Economic and Political Crisis, Galal A. Amin; Chapter 5 Debt and Egypt's Financial Policies, David Butter; Chapter 6 Egypt: Some Issues in Agricultural Sector Policy, Simon Commander; Chapter 7 Egypt and the Region in the 1980s, Charles Tripp;

Charles Tripp and Roger Owen, both Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies