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Authors: Michael Pearce

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Both wives then lent out their money locally at a handsome rate of interest. They were not alone. A surprising number of fellahin had gone down the same slippery path as Yussuf.

The result was a considerable transfer of wealth from the fellahin to their wives. Not long after, it was estimated that the fellahin women had become creditors to three-fifths of the debts of the fellahin. The Agricultural Bank was a poor second.

Which left Owen even more puzzled about the ways of the financial world.

He himself, however, had his own difficulties.


Still
no money?’ said Zeinab’s father, Nuri Pasha, affecting surprise. ‘With all your opportunities? What
have
you been doing?’

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[scanned anonymously in a galaxy far far away]

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[May, 2013]

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