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fellah

In Arab countries, farmer or farm labourer. The fellahin were thought to be the descendants of the ancient Egyptians who mixed with the various occupying peoples: Arabs, Persians, Greeks, and Turks. In Egypt, approximately 60% of the fellah population live in rural areas, and until 1952 most were serfs, owning no land. Despite land reforms, many are still without land. Most are Sunni Muslims.



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Hoerder's migrant workers are not only the laborers he knows so well, those who went to North America, but also the miners in the coalfields of West Bengal, the some twenty thousand Egyptian fellaheen who dug the Suez canal, and the uncounted Asians, Africans, and Europeans who opened the Panama Canal.
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium by Moch, Leslie Page / Journal of Social History
In imitation of the amirs they set themselves above the people, mistreated their former subordinates, and, like the former multazims, beat or imprisoned their fellaheen for failure to meet the exorbitant taxes they imposed.
The Egyptian and Iranian ulama at the threshold of modern social ... by Moaddel, Mansoor / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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