
No single business book on Egypt, but the state-capitalism story is well covered in pieces: colonial debt and cotton, Nasser's nationalisations, infitah, and the firm-level evidence on Mubarak-era crony capitalism. The military's business empire remains the undocumented part.
Egypt is the anchor case throughout; the standard textbook on regional state-business relations.
How experts, capital and land were arranged in modern Egypt.
How Egypt's judges, business elite and Islamists sought a path toward liberalism.
Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak: its politics, economy and crony privatisations.
Egypt from Nasser to Tahrir Square, and its state-run economy and opening.
How business associations and state elites actually bargain across the region.
Firm-level evidence on politically connected business; Egypt is the core case.
Colonial economism and the debt-and-cotton origins of the modern Egyptian economy.