Mona Abaza revisits her family's cotton estate in the Nile Delta

Mona Abaza is the author of The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story (AUC Press, 2013). In this interview, the sociology professor tells of her family's relation to the land and cotton in a time of social change.

To order The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story, go to http://aucpress.com/p-4793-politics-economics-and-social-issues.aspx

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