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Adel Iskandar - Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution - 9789774165962 - V9789774165962
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Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

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Description for Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution has been neither victorious nor defeated. Egypt in Flux is a collection of essays on the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of change in the country's ongoing revolutionary current. While written over a span of several years, the essays ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774165962
SKU
V9789774165962
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About Adel Iskandar
Adel Iskandar is assistant professor of global communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He has lectured about media, politics, and identity at universities in more than twenty countries and is a frequent commentator on the international media including BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN. The author and co-author of numerous works, Iskandar is also a coeditor of Jadaliyya.

Reviews for Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution
In essays spanning two tumultuous years, Iskandar captures the rapidly shifting moods of Egypt in revolution. After exploring the hypnotic forms of popular culture under the old regime and the euphoria accompanying its sudden collapse, he shows how, amid the divisions and disenchantments that followed, historic experiments in popular democracy continue to unfold. -Timothy Mitchell, professor and chair of the ... Read more

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