Contents
1. Egypt in Transformation
Jeannie Sowers
PART I. THE JANUARY 25 REVOLUTION
2. The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution
Mona El-Ghobashy
3. The Eighteen Days of Tahrir
Ahmad Shokr
4. The Poetry of Revolt
Elliott Colla
5. Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Egyptian Media
Ursula Lindsey
6. Taking Out the Trash: Youth Clean Up Egypt After Mubarak
Jessica Winegar
PART II. PROTEST UNDER AUTHORITARIAN RULE
7. The “Arab Street”
Asef Bayat
8. Activist Dissent and Anti-War Protests in Egypt
Paul Schemm
9. The Working Class and the Popular Movement in Egypt
Joel Beinin
10. The Wall Mubarak Made
Ursula Lindsey
PART III. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS UNDER MUBARAK
11. Unsettling the Authorities: Constitutional Reform in Egypt
Mona El-Ghobashy
12. The Dynamics of Elections Under Mubarak
Mona El-Ghobashy
13. Controlled Reform in Egypt: Neither Reformist nor Controlled
Issandr El Amrani
14. The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak’s Last Decade
Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher
15. The Gama‘a Islamiyya: From Impasse to Opportunity
Ewan Stein
16. Cross and Crescent in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Mariz Tadros
PART IV. ECONOMIC REFORM, DEMOGRAPHY, AND ENVIRONMENT
17. Economic Reform and Privatization in Egypt
Karen Pfeifer
18. Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires
Timothy Mitchell
19. Demographic Surprises Foreshadow Change in Neoliberal Egypt
Eric Denis
20. Mining for Fish: Privatization of the “Commons” Along Egypt’s Northern Coastline
Ray Bush and Amal Sabri
21. Damietta Mobilizes for Its Environment
Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers
PART V. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF YOUTH, GENDER,AND MARRIAGE
22. Downveiling: Gender and the Contest over Culture in Cairo
Linda Herrera
23. The Fiction (and Non-Fiction) of Egypt’s Marriage Crisis
Hanan Kholoussy
24. Explaining Egypt’s Targeting of Gays
Hossam Bahgat