olivaceous ([info]olivaceous) wrote in [info]historyfacts,
"The oil revolution sparked a migration of labor [in the Middle East]. . . Between 1973 and 1985, one-third of all rual Egyptian men worked at some time during their lives in the [Persian] Gulf."


source: The Modern Middle East, James L. Gelvin
Tags: egypt, middle east, oil

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