fellah

The heavily taxed peasants, the 'fellahin', were also annoyed at their taxes going to Europeans who lived in relatively wealthy surroundings.

Meantime the uttermost farthing was wrung from the wretched 'fellahin', while they were forced to the building of magnificent public works by unpaid labor.

He had a genuine regard for the welfare of the 'fellahin', and a land law of 1858 secured for them an acknowledgment of freehold as against the crown.