| When Capitalists Collide |
| Preface |
 | Note on Sources, Citations and Transliterations |
 | 1. Capitalists and Politics in Egypt |
| 1. Divided Rule: The Politics of Business-Group Conflict and Collaboration |
| 2. The Origins of the ‘Abbud Group and Its Rivals |
| 2. The Rise and Fall of the Neocolonial Order |
| 3. Shifting Lines of Power: Egyptian Business Groups and the Electrification Schemes of the 1920s and 1930s |
| 4. War within “the War”: Business-Group Conflict in Egypt, 1939–1945 |
| The War of Position |
| World War II and the Restructuring of the Postcolonial State and Economy |
| The 1942–1944 Wafd Government and ‘Abbud’s Bid to Become Egypt Inc. |
| The Last Battle of the War: Aswan, 1944 |
| • | Summary: The Fall of the Neocolonial Project |
| • | Notes |
| 3. Business, the State and Industrialization 1945–1955 |
| 5. Power and the Postcolonial State |
| 6. Indigenous Roots of Egypt’s Socialist Transformation: The Revolt against Business Privilege |
| Conclusion |
| References |