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EGYPT BEYOND TAHRIR SQUARE EGYPT BEYOND TAHRIR SQUARE Edited by Bessma Momani and Eid Mohamed INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress . indiana . edu © 2016 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions consti- tutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Momani, Bessma, editor. | Mohamed, Eid, editor. Title: Egypt beyond Tahrir Square / edited by Bessma Momani and Eid Mohamed. Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016024307 (print) | LCCN 2016040104 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253022837 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253023100 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253023315 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Arab Spring, 2010- | Egypt— History— Protests, 2011- | Revolutions— Egypt— History—21st century. | Egypt—H istory. Classification: LCC DT107.88 .E346 2016 (print) | LCC DT107.88 (ebook) | DDC 962.05/6— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016024307 1 2 3 4 5 21 20 19 18 17 16 Contents Acknowle dgments vii Introduction 1 Bessma Momani and Eid Mohamed 1 Egypt’s Revolutionary Spirit across Time 16 Belal Fadl and Maissaa Almustafa 2 Egyptian Revolutionaries’ Unrealistic Expectations 28 Mohammad Fadel 3 Egypt’s Revolutionary Moment Turned Uprising 41 Sahar Aziz 4 The New Intellectual in Egypt’s Revolutions 63 Shereen Abouelnaga 5 The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Opposition and Power 76 Dalia Fahmy 6 Copts’ Role in Modern Egypt 95 Mai Mogib Mosad 7 Egyptian Media Capturing the Revolution 118 Mohamad Hamas Elmasry and Mohammed El- Nawawy 8 The Egyptian Military and the Presidency: Continuity and Change 133 Dina Rashed 9 Policing Egypt during Revolutionary Times 151 Hesham Genidy and Justine Salam Conclusion: Moving beyond Tahrir 166 Ismail Alexandrani and Isaac Friesen List of Contributors 177 Index 181 Acknowl edgments T here are several p eople whom we would like to thank for their work, time, and hospitality. Thanks to the Balsillie School of International Affairs (bsia) in Waterloo, Ontario, where they hosted our book workshop on May 5 and 6, 2014. We would like to thank the bsia, especially Tiffany Bradley, John Ravenhill, and Joanne Weston, for providing us with the facilities to hold this workshop and to eventually complete this book with additional funding. We extend our appreciation to all t hose who participated in this workshop, our contributing authors as well as participants and discussants, including Mohamed Arafa, David Dewitt, Timothy Donais, Nathan Funk, Hannah R. Gerber, Jasmin Habib, Wael Haddara, Amr Hamzawy, Paul Kingston, Waleed Mahdi, Andrew Thompson, and Renee Worringer. We would like to thank Indiana University Press, and especially Rebecca Tolen for guiding us through the publication pro cess and for providing us with such helpful feedback throughout the pro cess. Thanks as well to Dee Mortensen and Paige Rasmussen of Indiana University Press. A special thank you to Elnaz Borandeh and Amanda Sadowski for their work in organ izing the book workshop and assisting in preparing chapters. We also thank Busra Hacioglu, Tanzeel Hakak, Reshem Khan, Anna Klimbovskaia, Nick McEwan, and Nadine Thibeh for their assistance. Many thanks to Anton Malkin for his copyediting. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the International Development Research Council, which was essential to the success of bringing Egyptian scholars together in one room to discuss the book proj ect. Dr. Momani would also like to thank the bsia for partial funding of book preparation and copyediting. Drs. Momani and Mohamed would like to thank their respective Egyptian families for their love, support, and patience. The p eople of Egypt deserve a g reat nation and this book was written with love for all Egyptians. vii EGYPT BEYOND TAHRIR SQUARE
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