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fellah .
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Examples
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The faces of the fellaheen are the faces of Thotmes and Seti.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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The faces of the fellaheen are the faces of Thotmes and Seti.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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The faces of the fellaheen are the faces of Thotmes and Seti.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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After twelve months of negotiation, the fellaheen were at last bought out on fair terms, each proprietor receiving a stated price for his dwelling and a piece of land elsewhere, upon which to build another.
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Egyptian "fellaheen" have submitted passively to a long series of conquerors, albeit this passivity has been occasionally broken by outbursts of volcanic fury presently dying away into passivity once more.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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My father's family is from the fellaheen, now a generation removed, yet they are divided on this last point.
Sahar Taman: Egyptians have No Intention of Allowing their Revolution to be Hijacked Sahar Taman 2011
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As they passed through the villages of the Nile Delta, crowds of Egyptian fellaheen shook the soles of their sandals at the train—the ultimate Egyptian insult.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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His regime was populist in spirit and brought real change to the lives of millions of poor fellaheen.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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As they passed through the villages of the Nile Delta, crowds of Egyptian fellaheen shook the soles of their sandals at the train—the ultimate Egyptian insult.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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But they soon discovered that the peasant farmers on the edges of the crowd, the fellaheen, had mostly never heard of Mohamed ElBaradei, while many of those who had were afraid to put down their full names in support of his campaign.
brtom commented on the word fellaheen
The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007