Why Occupy a Square?: People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution

by Jeroen Gunning and Ilan Zvi Baron

Book Overview

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmaneuver the police? Was this really a 'leaderless revolution, ' as so many pundits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199394989
• ISBN13: 9780199394982
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"