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fellah
A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
1920, (w), “s:Folk-Lore/Volume 31/Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore|Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore” in Folk-Lore 31 p. 176
- Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin.
1922, (w), Ulysses:
- It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
1957, (w), Justine:
- Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced fellah girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.
1955, (w), The Spiders House'':
- All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a fellah ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.
1977, (w), A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 39:
- It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the fellahs.
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