Media, revolution and politics in Egypt
Subtitle: the story of an uprising
By: Abdalla F. Hassan
Publisher: Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780857726575
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mass media; Journalism; Press and politics; Politics and government; History; PSYCHOLOGY; Social Psychology; Political aspects
Description: "For too long Egypt's system of government was beholden to the interests of the elite in power, aided by the massive apparatus of the security state. Breaking point came on 25 January 2011. But several years after popular revolt enthralled a global audience, the struggle for democracy and basic freedoms are far from being won. Media, Revolution, and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's year in office, and his ouster by the military. Activism has expanded freedoms of expression only to see those spaces contract with the resurrection of the police state. And with sharpening political divisions, the facts have become amorphous as ideological trends cling to their own narratives of truth."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue to revolution; title: Eighteen days; title: Politics and the press under millitary rule; title: Revolutionaries versus the generals; title: Fall of military rule and the Islamists; title: An overthrow, a revitalised police state, and the military presidency.