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The journey to Tahrir : revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt / edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing.

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London ; New York : Verso, 2012.

Protest movements -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century.

Egypt -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

9781844678754 (pbk.) :

184467875X (pbk.)

viii, 310 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

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.

Presents a collection of essays which examines the Egyptian social and political forces which resulted in the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack and the coalition of reform groups who hope to establish a democratic, representative government.

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