To those interested in Marxism in the Arab countries East, and specifically Egypt. I would seminal works on the subject by Tareq Y. Ismael: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq The Communist Movement in Egypt 1920-1988 The Arab Left The Sudanese Communist Party Essential Readings on Marxism and the Left in Egypt
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51