Bahgat Korany
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789774165368
- eISBN:
- 9781617971365
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165368.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This concluding chapter pulls the different threads together and treats Egypt as a comparative case study: i.e. it situates Egypt within the general ‘Arab Spring’ phenomenon. After recapitulating the ...
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This concluding chapter pulls the different threads together and treats Egypt as a comparative case study: i.e. it situates Egypt within the general ‘Arab Spring’ phenomenon. After recapitulating the book's main vision, the contentious politics paradigm, it classifies in a table form the different patterns of Arab protests. The existence of an Arab nation notwithstanding, different forms of ‘Pan-Arabism’ are compared and an emerging people's one is explored. Equally explored is the impact of the new social media. The chapter by ends analyzing the challenges of transition: democratic, theocratic or the in-between.Less
This concluding chapter pulls the different threads together and treats Egypt as a comparative case study: i.e. it situates Egypt within the general ‘Arab Spring’ phenomenon. After recapitulating the book's main vision, the contentious politics paradigm, it classifies in a table form the different patterns of Arab protests. The existence of an Arab nation notwithstanding, different forms of ‘Pan-Arabism’ are compared and an emerging people's one is explored. Equally explored is the impact of the new social media. The chapter by ends analyzing the challenges of transition: democratic, theocratic or the in-between.
Bahgat Korany and Rabab El-Mahdi (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789774165368
- eISBN:
- 9781617971365
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165368.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book tries to answer three questions: 1) A ‘why’ question: the reason we have been surprised by the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring.’ Do we have the right conceptual lenses to understand the region ...
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This book tries to answer three questions: 1) A ‘why’ question: the reason we have been surprised by the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring.’ Do we have the right conceptual lenses to understand the region and its different political interactions? 2) A ‘who’ question: the number and type of different groups that launched the protests and occupied Al-Tahrir Square. 3) A ‘how’ question: the way these spontaneous groups coalesced together, overpowered police forces and finally forced former President Mubarak to resign after almost 30 years in power. In addition to the introduction, the book's 13 chapters are regrouped into four parts. These deal with the resistance and limits of authoritarian rule, group dynamics in Tahrir, an attempt to go beyond the immediate and looking ahead. The book has a general bibliography and some appendices of several historical documents of the period as well as a sample of Tahrir slogans.Less
This book tries to answer three questions: 1) A ‘why’ question: the reason we have been surprised by the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring.’ Do we have the right conceptual lenses to understand the region and its different political interactions? 2) A ‘who’ question: the number and type of different groups that launched the protests and occupied Al-Tahrir Square. 3) A ‘how’ question: the way these spontaneous groups coalesced together, overpowered police forces and finally forced former President Mubarak to resign after almost 30 years in power. In addition to the introduction, the book's 13 chapters are regrouped into four parts. These deal with the resistance and limits of authoritarian rule, group dynamics in Tahrir, an attempt to go beyond the immediate and looking ahead. The book has a general bibliography and some appendices of several historical documents of the period as well as a sample of Tahrir slogans.
