HIST355Take-HomeTestNo.1
Instructions
•Answer ONE(1) of the questions below in essay form.
•Although you are permitted to refer to whatever course materials you wish in preparing your essays, please keep in mind that simply restating the readings or lectures will not suffice for top marks. Only a well-written, well-argued, and well-crafted essay that musters appropriate evidence to support your claims will earn top marks. Errors of fact, interpretation, or style –including faulty spelling and grammar –will prompt the deduction of marks.
•No citations are necessary unless you refer to materials beyond the textbook and lectures.
•Return the exambye-mail attachment in.doc x or.pd fformat
•All written work submitted must be yours and yours alone.
•Your essay must not exceed 1500 words.No text beyond this 1500-word limit will be read or evaluated.Questions
1.While the fez or tar bush was almost universally worn by Egyptian government officials before the 1952 Revolution, the headgear favoured by the efendiyya was abandoned by most such officials after the revolution. What might this abandonment of the tar bush have represented for the Free Officers and Egyptians generally?Can one interpret this step as symbolic of the agenda that Egypt’s new rulers had for the country?
2.Throughout the interwar period, Arab labour activists were among the most prominent and important advocates for anti-colonial struggle and national independence. Why then were the Arab revolutionary regimes that ultimately emerged in the 1950s and1960s so wary of leftists and labour movements?Why were these regimes so reluctant to allow leftists and labour movements a voice in national affairs?
