Contents

       Acknowledgements

 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

25. Imagined Youths
       Ted Swedenburg

Contributors
Index