Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword to the Hardback Edition Timothy Mitchell -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Egypt's Deserts: History, Geography, and Early Development -- 2 A Roll Call of Desert Schemes and Dreams, 1952 to 2014 -- 3 Greening Egypt's Desert -- 4 Building Cities and Settlements in the Desert -- 5 Desert Tourism and Environmental Challenges -- 6 Industry, Mining, and Everything Else -- 7 A New Population Map for Egypt? -- 8 The Fatal Flaw: Disastrous Management of Public Land
9 Summing Up: Will Lessons Ever Be Learned? -- 10 A Way Forward -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography