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BARREN LAND AND FECUND BODIES: THE EMERGENCE OF POPULATION DISCOURSE IN INTERWAR EGYPT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2005

Omnia El Shakry
Omnia El Shakry
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Omnia El Shakry is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California at Davis, Davis, Calif. 95616-8611. USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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Between 1936 and 1939, the Egyptian Medical Association held a series of forums on birth control and the population problem; the first full-length book on Egypt's population problem was published; the first life tables for Egypt were calculated; a group of university professors organized under the rubric of the Happy Family Society to discuss the need for planned families; the first fatwa on birth control in the 20th century was issued by the mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Abd al-Majid Salim; and the Ministry of Social Affairs was created, part of its mandate being to study the population problem.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 351 - 372
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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