Egypt's Beer : : Stella, Identity, and the Modern State / / Omar D. Foda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Foda, Omar D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Although alcohol is generally forbidden in Muslim countries, beer has been an important part of Egyptian identity for much of the last century. Egypt’s Stella beer (which only coincidentally shares a name with the Belgian beer Stella Artois) became a particularly meaningful symbol of the changes tha...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Notes on Translation and Transliteration
• Abbreviations
• The Egyptian Beer Industry
• Introduction
• 1. Grand Plans in Glass Bottles: Importing the Modern Beer Industry into Egypt
• 2. A Star Rises: Stella and the Egyptian Beer Industry, 1920–1940
• 3. Crowning the Pyramid: The Egyptian Beer Industry’s “Mature” Period, 1940–1952
• 4. Stella Is Always Delicious: Selling Beer in the Time of Nasser, 1952–1958
• 5. A Pan-Arab Brew: Stella and the United Arab Republic, 1958–1961
• 6. Getting the Dutch Out: How Stella Became the Beer of the Egyptian Regime, 1961–1972
• 7. Opening Up Stella: The Infitah and the Beer Business in Egypt, 1973–1985
• 8. An American Pharaoh and the Egyptian Star: Stella, 1985–2003
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index