Reversing Nasser’s land reform and socialism triggered Egypt’s 1977 bread riots

Evidence

Sadat cracked down hard on the left and reversed the land reform that had undergirded Nasser’s revolution, handing a lot of property back to the country’s feudal class, and began an infitah, or “opening,” that commenced with the deconstruction of Arab Socialism in the region’s most populous country. The Egyptian people responded with bread riots across the nation in 1977. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 208

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains what infitah (‘opening’) actually meant — the rollback of Arab socialism and return of land to the feudal class.