Egypt's Revolutions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Egypt in Revolution

   1. Introduction: Egypt in Revolution

      • Bernard Rougier, Stéphane Lacroix

      Pages 1-15

3. The Muslim Brotherhood Faces the Test of Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Reasons for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Failure in Power

      • Patrick Haenni

      Pages 19-39

   3. Confronting the Transition to Legality

      • Marie Vannetzel

      Pages 41-59

   4. Between Social Populism and Pragmatic Conservatism

      • Amr Adly

      Pages 61-78

4. Government, Institutions, and Political Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The Role of Elections: The Recomposition of the Party System and the Hierarchization of Political Issues

      • Clément Steuer

      Pages 81-99

   3. Egypt’s Judiciary in a Postrevolutionary Era

      • Nathan J. Brown

      Pages 101-121

   4. Egypt’s Third Constitution in Three Years: A Critical Analysis

      • Zaid Al-Ali

      Pages 123-137

   5. The Electoral Sociology of the Egyptian Vote in the 2011–2013 Sequence

      • Bernard Rougier, Hala Bayoumi

      Pages 139-159

5. Social Actors and Protest Movements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. The Rise of Revolutionary Salafism in Post-Mubarak Egypt

      • Stéphane Lacroix, Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata

      Pages 163-178

   3. Sinai: From Revolution to Terrorism

      • Ismail Alexandrani

      Pages 179-196

   4. The Labor Movement in the Face of Transition

      • Nadine Abdalla

      Pages 197-211

   5. Copts and the Egyptian Revolution: Christian Identity in the Public Sphere

      • Gaétan Du Roy

      Pages 213-227

   6. An Urban Revolution in Egypt?

      • Roman Stadnicki

      Pages 229-244

6. Biographical Sketches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

      • Tewfik Aclimandos

      Pages 247-253

   3. Hamdin Sabbahi

      • Tewfik Aclimandos

      Pages 255-258

Where is Egypt headed? Did the people 'bring down the government'? Has the country become the first front in a regional counter-revolution backed by the Gulf monarchies? These are only some of the questions that this volume - the first to describe the ongoing dynamics in Egypt since the outbreak of revolution - explores.

• Egypt
• Middle East
• Muslim Brotherhood
• Revolution
• Islam
• Political Islam
• Counter-revolution
• Arab Spring
• constitution
• government
• Institution
• political process
• Protest
• revolution
• terrorism
• transition

“The purpose of this book is to look at Egypt’s recent spare of revolutions, give details of the account of events, and discuss the causes of the successes and failures. This work is comprehensive, illuminating, insightful.” (Paiso Jamakar, Biz India Reviews, bizindia.net, December, 2015)

Nadine Abdalla is a Non-Resident Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Tewfic Aclimandos has been research associate at the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab world at the College de France since 2009. Amr Adly is currently a consultant at the Carnegie Middle East Center. Zaid al-Ali is Senior Adviser on Constitution Building for International IDEA. Ismail Alexandrani is a research fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI - Paris), France. Hala Bayoumi is a permanent fellow at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Nathan Brown is a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, USA, and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Gaétan Du Roy is currently research associate at the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS), University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium and at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Patrick Haenni works as Middle East Senior Advisor at the Humanitarian Dialogue Center, Switzerland. Roman Stadnicki directs the Urban Studies Department at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Clément Steuer works at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as an associate researcher at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Marie Vannetzel is a post-doc researcher at CERI-Sciences Po, France. Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata has worked for Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt, and has written for various online publications in Arabic.

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