Egypt's Other Wars

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypts Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nations struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda. Egypt in the 1940s as in the throes of a nationalist upheaval. Nationalists of all political ideologies attributed the sever epidemics that the country was experiencing to Egypts status as an underdeveloped and colonized nation. The epidemics were therefore viewed for the first time as not only a public health crisis but also a political problem that called for a political solution.