Thanks a ton for this article! This is exactly what I want to read: Most critically new information, putting in the context of the author's vision for a better future, and suggestions about concrete actions to take to bring about that envisioned better future. Too many popular Medium.com writers seem to just spout inflammatory opinions without offering much if any new information, let alone concrete steps to make things better. I had no idea about this history of land ownership and cooperatives in Egypt!

You report that Egypt banned independent labor unions in 2018. That's such an important, tragic event in human history. It is so ironic that seemingly every single "communist, workers' utopia" government goes around banning independent labor unions saying "Why should workers need multiple, separate, independent unions? "The Party" is the universal labor union!" The Socialist Nazis did the same thing.