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Author Korany, Bahgat

Title Arab Spring in Egypt : Revolution and Beyond
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages)
Contents 9789774165368; 9789774165368; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; Appendices; Appendix 1; Bibliography; Index
Summary Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in the region's most populous country, Egypt, led to key questions of why, how, and with what consequences did this occur?Inspired by the "contentious politics" school and Social Movement Theory, Arab
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Subject Arab Spring, 2010-
Revolutions -- Egypt
Protest movements -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century
Democratization -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century
HISTORY -- World.
Democratization
Politics and government
Protest movements
Revolutions
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013
Egypt -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author El-Mahdi, Rabab
ISBN 9781617974946
1617974943