feddans

I comforted myself with a series of unlikely scenarios: Omar, Abdullah, and me happily ensconced in our own rooms in the Abu Halaweh Cairo household; Omar, Abdullah, and me with one hundred feddans of land in the rich and fertile delta of the Nile; Omar, Abdullah, and me on a grand dahabieh floating gently upstream.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

I comforted myself with a series of unlikely scenarios: Omar, Abdullah, and me happily ensconced in our own rooms in the Abu Halaweh Cairo household; Omar, Abdullah, and me with one hundred feddans of land in the rich and fertile delta of the Nile; Omar, Abdullah, and me on a grand dahabieh floating gently upstream.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

I comforted myself with a series of unlikely scenarios: Omar, Abdullah, and me happily ensconced in our own rooms in the Abu Halaweh Cairo household; Omar, Abdullah, and me with one hundred feddans of land in the rich and fertile delta of the Nile; Omar, Abdullah, and me on a grand dahabieh floating gently upstream.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

I comforted myself with a series of unlikely scenarios: Omar, Abdullah, and me happily ensconced in our own rooms in the Abu Halaweh Cairo household; Omar, Abdullah, and me with one hundred feddans of land in the rich and fertile delta of the Nile; Omar, Abdullah, and me on a grand dahabieh floating gently upstream.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

Goschen and Joubert, asked wonderingly if those financiers had died; while a scanty Nile, ten to twelve feet lower, they say, than any known during the last thousand years, added to the troubles of the poor, by throwing some 600,000 feddans (acres) out of gear, and by compelling an exodus from the droughty right to the left bank.

The Land of Midian 2003

Further reductions were introduced in 1961 (maximum holdings of 100 feddans) and again in 1969 (an even lower ceiling of 50 feddans).

1951, Oct. 8 2001

Landholders were forbidden to own more than 200 feddans (1 feddan = 1.038 acres) and were compensated for sequestered land.

1951, Oct. 8 2001

The cultivatable area grew from 4.8 million to 5.7 million feddans (1 feddan is equal to 1.038 acres).

1876, April 2001

By 1970, it was estimated that more than 800,000 feddans of confiscated land and some 200,000 feddans of state land had been turned over to 400,000 families (constituting about 10 percent of the rural population).

1951, Oct. 8 2001

Although many landless peasants received their own plots for the first time, the main beneficiaries were the rural notables who typically owned 20–50 feddans and dominated their local villages.

1951, Oct. 8 2001