Waking up to what looked like a new dawn, and not only in Egypt, a woman on Tahrir Square, who…
The elusive subject of revolution
Uprising in Egypt
Reflections from scholars on the Egyptian revolution in 2011.
For a follow-up series, read “The future of Egyptian democracy” from 2014.
Withdrawing consent
For the last month, we have been witnessing, in Tunisia and Egypt, the first revolution of the twenty-first century. We…
Power, normality, revolution
The degree of success of the Egyptian revolution is still undecided as I write these lines. The situation is critical,…
The road to Tahrir
While the uprising in Egypt caught most observers of the Middle East off guard, it did not come out of…
Space and resistance
It is illuminating to ponder the recent events in Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir as we try to understand the relationship between…
The dignity of Egyptian youth
No one expected this unfolding series of events—certainly, no one of my generation (those of us in our mid-forties), nor…
Myths of Mubarak
The term ‘secular’ and its conceptual affiliates are doing a lot of work in misrepresenting the uprising in Egypt. ‘Secular’…