The journey to Tahrir : revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt /
The journey to Tahrir : revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt /
edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing.
- viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"This book is a collective effort by the contributing authors to Middle East Report."--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Egypt in transformation / Jeannie Sowers -- Part I. The January 25 revolution -- The praxis of the Egyptian revolution / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The eighteen days of Tahrir / Ahmad Shokr -- The poetry of revolt / Elliott Colla -- Revolution and counter-revolution in the Egyptian media / Ursula Lindsey -- Taking out the trash: youth clean up Egypt after Mubarak / Jessica Winegar -- Part II. Protest under authoritarian rule -- The "Arab street" / Asef Bayat -- Activist dissent and anti-war protests in Egypt / Paul Schemm -- The working class and the popular movement in Egypt / Joel Beinin -- The wall Mubarak made / Ursula Lindsey -- Part III. Political participation and political institutions under Mubarak -- Unsettling the authorities: constitutional reform in Egypt / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The dynamics of elections under Mubarak / Mona El-Ghobashy -- Controlled reform in Egypt: neither reformist nor controlled / Issandr El-Amrani -- The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak's last decade / Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher -- The Gama'a Islamiyya: from impasse to opportunity / Ewan Stein -- Cross and crescent in post-Mubarak Egypt / Mariz Tadros -- Part IV. Economic reform, demography, and environment -- Economic reform and privatization in Egypt / Karen Pfeifer -- Dreamland: the neoliberalism of your desires / Timothy Mitchell -- Demographic surprises foreshadow change in neoliberal Egypt / Eric Denis -- Mining for fish: privatization of the "commons" along Egypt's northern coastline / Ray Bush and Amal Sabri -- Diametta mobilizes for its environment / Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers -- Part V. The cultural politics of youth, gender, and marriage -- Downveiling: gender and the contest over culture in Cairo / Linda Herrera -- The fiction (and non-fiction) of Egypt's marriage crisis / Hanan Kholoussy -- Explaining Egypt's targeting of gays / Hossam Bahgat -- Imagined youths / Ted Swedenburg.
184467875X 9781844678754
2012001432
Protest movements--History--Egypt--21st century.
Egypt--Politics and government--21st century.
Egypt--Social conditions--21st century.
DT107.87 / .J68 2012
962.055
"This book is a collective effort by the contributing authors to Middle East Report."--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Egypt in transformation / Jeannie Sowers -- Part I. The January 25 revolution -- The praxis of the Egyptian revolution / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The eighteen days of Tahrir / Ahmad Shokr -- The poetry of revolt / Elliott Colla -- Revolution and counter-revolution in the Egyptian media / Ursula Lindsey -- Taking out the trash: youth clean up Egypt after Mubarak / Jessica Winegar -- Part II. Protest under authoritarian rule -- The "Arab street" / Asef Bayat -- Activist dissent and anti-war protests in Egypt / Paul Schemm -- The working class and the popular movement in Egypt / Joel Beinin -- The wall Mubarak made / Ursula Lindsey -- Part III. Political participation and political institutions under Mubarak -- Unsettling the authorities: constitutional reform in Egypt / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The dynamics of elections under Mubarak / Mona El-Ghobashy -- Controlled reform in Egypt: neither reformist nor controlled / Issandr El-Amrani -- The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak's last decade / Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher -- The Gama'a Islamiyya: from impasse to opportunity / Ewan Stein -- Cross and crescent in post-Mubarak Egypt / Mariz Tadros -- Part IV. Economic reform, demography, and environment -- Economic reform and privatization in Egypt / Karen Pfeifer -- Dreamland: the neoliberalism of your desires / Timothy Mitchell -- Demographic surprises foreshadow change in neoliberal Egypt / Eric Denis -- Mining for fish: privatization of the "commons" along Egypt's northern coastline / Ray Bush and Amal Sabri -- Diametta mobilizes for its environment / Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers -- Part V. The cultural politics of youth, gender, and marriage -- Downveiling: gender and the contest over culture in Cairo / Linda Herrera -- The fiction (and non-fiction) of Egypt's marriage crisis / Hanan Kholoussy -- Explaining Egypt's targeting of gays / Hossam Bahgat -- Imagined youths / Ted Swedenburg.
184467875X 9781844678754
2012001432
Protest movements--History--Egypt--21st century.
Egypt--Politics and government--21st century.
Egypt--Social conditions--21st century.
DT107.87 / .J68 2012
962.055