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| Author | : Bessma Momani |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2016-09-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0253023319 |
First-person accounts by scholars and journalists of the Arab Spring and the revolution that ended Mubarak’s presidency. On January 25, 2011, the world’s eyes were on Egypt’s Tahrir Square as millions of people poured into the city center to call for the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak. Since then, few scholars or journalists have been given the opportunity to reflect on the nationwide moment of transformation and the hope that was embodied by the Egyptian Revolution. In this important and necessary volume, leading Egyptian academics and writers share their eyewitness experiences. They examine how events unfolded in relation to key social groups and institutions such as the military, police, labor, intellectuals, Coptic Christians, and the media; share the mood of the nation; assess what happened when three recent regimes of Egyptian rule came to an end; and account for the dramatic rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. The contributors’ deep engagement with politics and society in their country is evident and sets this volume apart from most of what has been published in English about the Arab Spring. The diversity of views brought together here is a testament to the contradictions and complexities of historical and political changes that affect Egypt and beyond.
| Author | : Charlotte Al-Khalili |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2023-05-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1800081189 |
Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives that complicate the assumptions about their duration, pace and progression, and argues that a renewed focus on the temporality of radical politics is essential to our understanding of revolution. Approaching revolution through its relationship to time, the book is a critical intervention into attempts to define revolutions as bounded events that act as sequential transitions from one political system to another. It pursues an ethnographically driven rethinking of the temporal horizons that are at stake in revolutionary processes, arguing that linear views of revolution are inextricably tied to notions of progress and modernity. Through a careful selection of case studies, the book provides a critical perspective on the lived realities of revolutionary afterlives, challenging the liberal humanist assumptions implicit in the ‘modern’ idea of revolution, and reappraising the political agency of people caught up in revolutionary situations across a variety of ethnographic contexts.
| Author | : Kuyang Logo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
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The wave of revolutions that swept North Africa was a moment in history where citizens and all common men rose against dictatorial governments and dictators who had established themselves as the epitome of absolute power surrounded by loyalist determined to see them as lifelong leaders. When the weighing scales of a little known fruit and vegetable vendor Mohammed Bouazizi were confiscated and a bribe solicited for their release by a law enforcement officer who not only humiliated him, but slapped him hard in the face, little did the world know that the occurrence would forever be registered as the spark that ignited one revolution that set the trend for others living in oppression. Egyptians followed suit and after only 18 days President Mubarak stepped down to a thunderous applause in Tahirir square. The jubilation lasted for a while and all Egyptians got to the task of cleaning their streets in the new dawn of a revolution achieved by the youth of Egypt. However repeated demands made by the protestors to the Supreme Council which was in charge never met the expectations of the demonstrators. After two years of "Quick fix" reforms in the area of Constitutional amendments, Parliamentary and Presidential elections, and other rule of law reforms, the economic situation has plummeted deeper, the security situation became more troubling and the Muslim brotherhood became unpopular every day. As Egyptians make Tahirir square their home of demands, the world looks on and wonders about the future of Egypt and the state of affairs that seem to be getting worse. The author analyses these events and the immediate response by the Supreme Council to the demands for reforms in the area of Constitutionalism, Parliamentary and Presidential elections and offers recommendations on best approaches to reforms. The recommendations offer solutions relating to Judicial and legal reforms, better approaches on constitutional making, political participation and offers and analysis of how Egypt is trying to balance the economic and security needs with the need for political rights such as free speech and opening of political space.
| Author | : Deen Sharp |
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| Release | : 2016-08-08 |
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| ISBN | : 9780996004145 |
| Author | : Lloyd C. Gardner |
| Publisher | : The New Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2011-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1595587519 |
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25th—and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met—the politics of the region changed overnight. And the United States' long friendship with the man who had ruled under Emergency Law for thirty years came starkly into question. From Franklin D. Roosevelt's brief meeting with King Farouk near the end of World War II to Barack Obama's Cairo Speech in 2009 and the recent fall of Mubarak—the most significant turning point in American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War—this timely new book answers the urgent question of why Egypt has mattered so much to the United States. The Road to Tahrir Square is the first book to connect past and present, offering readers today an understanding of the events and forces determining American policy in this vitally important region. Making full use of the available records—including the controversial Wikileaks archive—renowned historian Lloyd C. Gardner shows how the United States has sought to influence Egypt through economic aid, massive military assistance, and CIA manipulations, an effort that has immediate implications for how the current crisis will alter the balance of power in the Middle East. As millions of Americans ponder how the Egyptian revolution will change the face of the region and the world, here is both a fascinating story of past policies and an essential guide to possible futures.
| Author | : Atef Shahat Said |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2023-11-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1478027630 |
In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the revolution, Said outlines the importance of Tahrir Square and other physical spaces as well as the role of social media and digital spaces. He develops the notion of lived contingency—the ways revolutionary actors practice and experience the revolution in terms of the actions they do or do not take—to show how Egyptians made sense of what was possible during the revolution. Said charts the lived contingencies of Egyptian revolutionaries from the decade prior to the revolution’s outbreak to its peak and the so-called transition to democracy to the 2013 military coup into the present. Contrary to retrospective accounts and counterrevolutionary thought, Said argues that the Egyptian Revolution was not doomed to defeat. Rather, he demonstrates that Egyptians did not fully grasp their immense clout and that limited reformist demands reduced the revolution’s potential for transformation.
| Author | : H. A. Hellyer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190659734 |
Egypt's democratic experiment has been derailed, but will her people remain committed to progressive change, and at what cost? Hellyer's first-hand knowledge of the country suggests the price will be high
| Author | : Ahdaf Soueif |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2012-01-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0747549621 |
Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations and interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had overflowing houses everywhere, been stopped by old ladies in the street and had my hand shaken by numerous taxi drivers and shopkeepers. And all because I’m Egyptian and the glitter of Tahrir is upon me. They wanted me to talk to them, to tell them stories about it, to tell them how, on the 28th of January when we took the Square and The People torched the headquarters of the hated ruling National Democratic Party, The (same) People formed a human chain to protect the Antiquities Museum and demanded an official handover to the military; to tell them how, on Wednesday, February 2nd, as The People defended themselves against the invading thug militias and fought pitched battles at the entrance to the Square in the shadow of the Antiquities Museum, The (same) People at the centre of the square debated political structures and laughed at stand-up comics and distributed sandwiches and water; to tell them of the chants and the poetry and the songs, of how we danced and waved at the F16s that our President flew over us. People everywhere want to make this Revolution their own, and we in Egypt want to share it. Ahdaf Soueif - novelist, commentator, activist - navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian. Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world’s media and did - like everyone else - whatever she could.
| Author | : H.A. Hellyer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0190694688 |
Amid the turbulence of the 2011 Arab uprisings, the revolutionary uprising that played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square created high expectations before dashing the hopes of its participants. The upheaval led to a sequence of events in Egypt that scarcely anyone could have predicted, and precious few have understood: five years on, the status of Egypt's unfinished revolution remains shrouded in confusion. Power shifted hands rapidly, first from protesters to the army leadership, then to the politicians of the Muslim Brotherhood, and then back to the army. The politics of the street has given way to the politics of Islamist-military détentes and the undoing of the democratic experiment. Meanwhile, a burgeoning Islamist insurgency occupies the army in Sinai and compounds the nation's sense of uncertainty. A Revolution Undone blends analysis and narrative, charting Egypt's journey from Tahrir to Sisi from the perspective of an author and analyst who lived it all. H.A. Hellyer brings his first-hand experience to bear in his assessment of Egypt's experiment with protest and democracy. And by scrutinizing Egyptian society and public opinion, Islamism and Islam, the military and government, as well as the West's reaction to events, Hellyer provides a much-needed appraisal of Egypt's future prospects.
| Author | : Mehran Kamrava |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019938441X |
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