Egyptian Revolt 2011

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Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution: Conditions and Consequences
Al-Amin, Esam
Article
2011
Like perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of th...
The Arab Revolts Against Neoliberalism
Joya, Angela; Bond, Patrick; El-Amine, Rmai; Hanieh, Adam; Henaway, Mostafa
Article
2011
The Arab Revolts and the Cage of Political Economy
Challand, Benoit
Article
2011
Though the Arab revolts of 2011 herald a new era where people have powerfully asserted their inalienable right to protest (and we hope they will continue doing so), the powerful cage of political econ...
The Day the Internet Died: An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
Narco News School of Authentic Journalism
Article
2012
When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
Egypt at the tipping point?
Beinin, Joel
Article
2011
Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Fisk, Robert
Article
2011
Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
Egypt Protests Photos
Photo/Image/Poster
2011
The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media: Obscuring the Obvious
Georgy, Joshua Farouk
Article
2011
It is no wonder that most Americans are hopelessly in the dark. Middle East “news” in the mainstream is constructed so that people remain in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
Bonilla, Isadora
Article
2012
Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution: A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
Tugal, Cihan
Article
2013
When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of...
From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale: The Anti-Empire Report
Blum, William
Article
2011
The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socia...
Last Sparks From Tahrir Square: Tahrir Square Died, But Not the Revolution
Vltchek, Andre
Article
2013
Once again, the prisons of Egypt are full. The hospitals are overflowing with injured men and women. But the fight, the ‘process’ goes on; it is not dying. Tahrir Square died, but the revolution is ge...
Mubarak's Last Gasps: From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
Al-Amin, Esam
Article
2011
Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
Mubarak's third force terror tactic
Africa, David
Article
2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of...
On Egypt
Article
2011
Historical compromise over an attempt at democratic change.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017: Disobedience
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once pe...
Roads to the Arab Uprisings: Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Wainer, Kit Adam
Article
2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013,...
The strike that led to Tahir Square: An act of courage that launched a revolution
Sly, Liz
Article
2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
Article
2011
On the overthrow of Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak.
Understanding the counter-revolution
Bouharoun, Jad
Article
2017
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
Understanding the Egyptian Uprising For Democracy, Report from the Ground
Rehab, Ahmed
Article
2011
After decades of autocratic rule, state propaganda, institutionalized government corruption, police brutality, and suppression of basic freedoms, frustrated Egyptians are taking to the streets seeking...
Why No Reporters in Suez?: The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Cramer, Mary Lynn
Article
2011
What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
Why the Revolt in Egypt?: Against The Current vol. 152
La Botz, Dan
Article
2011
Why has the Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? Above all, why Egypt, the largest and most important of the Arab nations?