Uri Kupferschmidt's study of Henri Naus is a welcome addition to the material for the study of Egyptian inter-war politics and economics and to the very sparse biographical material on members of the Egyptian elite during the 20th century more generally. Naus, a native of Belgium who was intimately connected with the Egyptian sugar industry in the first three decades of the 20th century, was one of a rather large community of expatriate businessmen in Egypt at the time. Theirs is a story that, as Kupferschmidt's copious and intelligent comments on the existing literature make clear, has been told from a variety of viewpoints other than their own. Robert Tignor's State, Private Enterprise and Economic Change is a large overview of Egyptian business. Robert Vitalis's study When Capitalists Collide focuses on the business community through its Egyptian-born rather than foreign members.