Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond

by Bahgat Korany

Book Overview

Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in the region's most populous country, Egypt, led to key...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774166469
• ISBN13: 9789774166464
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"