The journey to Tahrir
Subtitle: revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt, 1999-2011
By: edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781844678754
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Protest movements; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "This book is a collective effort by the contributing authors to Middle East Report."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Egypt in transformation / Jeannie Sowers; title: Part I. The January 25 revolution; title: The praxis of the Egyptian revolution / Mona El-Ghobashy; title: The eighteen days of Tahrir / Ahmad Shokr; title: The poetry of revolt / Elliott Colla; title: Revolution and counter-revolution in the Egyptian media / Ursula Lindsey; title: Taking out the trash: youth clean up Egypt after Mubarak / Jessica Winegar; title: Part II. Protest under authoritarian rule; title: The "Arab street" / Asef Bayat; title: Activist dissent and anti-war protests in Egypt / Paul Schemm; title: The working class and the popular movement in Egypt / Joel Beinin; title: The wall Mubarak made / Ursula Lindsey; title: Part III. Political participation and political institutions under Mubarak; title: Unsettling the authorities: constitutional reform in Egypt / Mona El-Ghobashy; title: The dynamics of elections under Mubarak / Mona El-Ghobashy; title: Controlled reform in Egypt: neither reformist nor controlled / Issandr El-Amrani; title: The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak's last decade / Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher; title: The Gama'a Islamiyya: from impasse to opportunity / Ewan Stein; title: Cross and crescent in post-Mubarak Egypt / Mariz Tadros; title: Part IV. Economic reform, demography, and environment; title: Economic reform and privatization in Egypt / Karen Pfeifer; title: Dreamland: the neoliberalism of your desires / Timothy Mitchell; title: Demographic surprises foreshadow change in neoliberal Egypt / Eric Denis; title: Mining for fish: privatization of the "commons" along Egypt's northern coastline / Ray Bush and Amal Sabri; title: Diametta mobilizes for its environment / Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers; title: Part V. The cultural politics of youth, gender, and marriage; title: Downveiling: gender and the contest over culture in Cairo / Linda Herrera; title: The fiction (and non-fiction) of Egypt's marriage crisis / Hanan Kholoussy; title: Explaining Egypt's targeting of gays / Hossam Bahgat; title: Imagined youths / Ted Swedenburg.