Fellache

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Charles Gleyre , Three Fellachians (1835)

As a Fellache (also Felache , from Arabic فلاح fallah , DMG fallāḥ  'plowman', derived from the verbفلح / falaḥa  / 'split / work the soil'; Pluralفلاحون / Fallāḥūn ) was used in colonial times or is a member of the agricultural rural population of the Near East , especially in Egypt and Palestine .

Fellachen form the largest population group in Egypt with around 60 percent (2005). The fellahs are largely powerless politically and are disregarded by the townspeople. They still live mostly in mud houses today, just like their forefathers did for thousands of years. At the beginning of the 20th century their share was much higher. It was not until the beginning of urbanization that many fellahs poured into the cities.

literature

  • Rana Barakat: The Jerusalem Fellah. In: Journal of Palestine Studies, Volume 46, No. 1 (181), Fall 2016, pp. 7-19

Web links

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Wiktionary: Fellache  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Who are the Fellahin? ( Memento of November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP), Biot Report 312, December 24, 2005