Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy

by Daanish Faruqi and Dalia Fahmy

The liberatory sentiment that stoked the Arab Spring and saw the ousting of long-time Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak seems a distant memory. Democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi lasted only a year before he was forced from power to be replaced by precisely the kind of authoritarianism protestors had been railing against in January 2011. Paradoxically, this turn of events was encouraged by the same liberal activists and intelligentsia who'd...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780748825
• ISBN13: 9781780748825
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oneworld Academic
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"