NEW TITLE:
THE JOURNEY TO TAHRIR: REVOLUTION, PROTEST AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN EGYPT
Edited by JEANNIE SOWERS AND CHRIS TOENSING
Published: 28th June 2012
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The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from MIDDLE
EAST REPORT - the premier journal covering the region - that offer unrivaled analysis of the major social andpolitical trends that underpinned these tumultuous events.
Starting with the momentous eighteen days of street protest that compelled Mubarak'sresignation, the volume moves back in time to plumb the state's strategies of repression and examine the mounting dissent
of workers, democracy advocates, anti-war activists, and social and environmental campaigners. Leading analysts of Egypt detail the demographic and economic trends that produced wealth for the few and impoverishment for the many. The collection brings clear-headed,
first-hand understanding to bear on a moment of intense hope and uncertainty in the Arab world's most populous nation.
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FULL LIST OF CONTENTS:
1. Egypt in Transformation - Jeannie Sowers
PART I. THE JANUARY 25 REVOLUTION
2. The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution - Mona El-Ghobashy
3. The Eighteen Days of Tahrir - Ahmad Shokr
4. The Poetry of Revolt - Elliott Colla
5. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Egyptian Media - Ursula Lindsey
6. Taking Out the Trash: Youth Clean Up Egypt After Mubarak - Jessica Winegar
PART II. PROTEST UNDER AUTHORITARIAN RULE
7. The “Arab Street” - Asef Bayat
8. Activist Dissent and Anti-War Protests in Egypt - Paul Schemm
9. The Working Class and the Popular Movement in Egypt - Joel Beinin
10. The Wall Mubarak Made - Ursula Lindsey
PART III. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS UNDER MUBARAK
11. Unsettling the Authorities: Constitutional Reform in Egypt - Mona El-Ghobashy
12. The Dynamics of Elections Under Mubarak - Mona El-Ghobashy
13. Controlled Reform in Egypt: Neither Reformist nor Controlled - Issandr El Amrani
14. The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak’s Last Decade -Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher
15. The Gama‘a Islamiyya: From Impasse to Opportunity - Ewan Stein
16. Cross and Crescent in Post-Mubarak Egypt - Mariz Tadros
PART IV. ECONOMIC REFORM, DEMOGRAPHY, AND ENVIRONMENT
17. Economic Reform and Privatization in Egypt - Karen Pfeifer
18. Dreamland:
The Neoliberalism of Your Desires - Timothy Mitchell
19. Demographic Surprises Foreshadow Change in Neoliberal Egypt - Eric Denis
20. Mining
for Fish: Privatization of the “Commons” Along Egypt’s Northern Coastline - Ray
Bush and Amal Sabri
21. Damietta Mobilizes for Its Environment - Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers
PART V. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF YOUTH, GENDER, AND MARRIAGE
22. Downveiling:
Gender and the Contest Over Culture in Cairo - Linda Herrera
23. The Fiction (and Non-Fiction) of Egypt’s Marriage Crisis - Hanan Kholoussy
24. Explaining Egypt’s Targeting of Gays - Hossam Bahgat
25. Imagined Youths - Ted Swedenburg
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Praise for MIDDLE EAST REPORT:
“MIDDLE EAST REPORT is the best periodical (in English) on the Middle East—bar none.” – Rashid Khalidi
“No person, specializing or not in Middle Eastern affairs, can afford to ignore MIDDLE EAST REPORT.”
– Eric Rouleau
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Jeannie Sowers & Chris Toensing are experts on the Middle East, especially Egypt, and editors of MIDDLE EAST REPORT.
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ISBN: 978 1 84467 875 4 / $29.95 / £19.99 / Paperback / 320 pages
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