February 7, 2011

Protests in Egypt

In the News: Cairo – Since mass protests began in Egypt on January 25, President Hosni Mubarak has announced that he would not seek re-election for a sixth term. It has been reported that protests were organized by opposition groups using various forms of social media. Among the leading critics of the Mubarak government are the Muslim Brotherhood and Nobel Laureate Mohammed ElBaradei.

The Building of Consensus in Egypt’s Transition Process
By Noha El-Mikawy. American University in Cairo, 1999
Call Number: JQ3881 .M54 1999

Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt
By Maha Abdelrahman. I. B. Tauris, 2004
Call Number: JQ3847 .A23 2004

Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
By Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski. Stanford University Press, 2010
Call Number: DT107.82 .G425 2010

Egypt During the Sadat Years
By Kirk J. Beattie. Palgrave, 2000
Call Number: DT107.85 .B43 2000

Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak – ON ORDER
By Tarek Osman. Yale University Press, 2010

Egypt Reborn: A Study of Egypt’s Freedom Movement, 1945-52
By Shah Abdul Qayyum. S. Chand, 1973
Call Number: DT82 .Q3

Egypt As a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
By Beth Baron. University of California Press, 2005
Call Number: HQ1793 .B368 2005 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Egyptian Politics: The Dynamics of Authoritarian Rule
By Maye Kassem. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004
Call Number: JQ3881 .K37 2004

The Egyptian Upper Class between Revolutions, 1919-1952
By Magda Baraka. Ithaca Press, 1998
Call Number: DT107 .B37 1998

In the Guise of Democracy: Governance in Contemporary Egypt
By May Kassem. Ithaca Press, 1999
Call Number: JQ3898 .A1 K37 1999

In Pursuit of Legitimacy: the Muslim Brothers and Mubarak, 1982-2000
By Hesham Al-Awadi. Tauris, 2004
Call Number: DT107.87 .A43 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

In Search of Identity: An Autobiography
By Anwar el-Sadat. Harper & Row, 1978
Call Number: DT107.828 .S23 A33 1978

Islam without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists
By Raymond William Baker. Harvard University Press, 2003
Call Number: DT107.87 .B347 2003

Islamists and Secularists in Egypt: Opposition, Conflict, and Cooperation
By Dina Shehata. Routledge, 2010
Call Number: JQ3881 .S54 2010

The Kefaya Movement: A Case Study of a Grassroots Reform Initiative
By Nadia Oweidat et al. Rand, National Defense Research Institute, 2008
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt
By Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. Columbia University Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Mubarak’s Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order
By Robert Springborg. Westview Press, 1989
Call Number: HC830 .S68 1989

The Muslim Brotherhood: Hasan al-Hudaybi and Ideology
By Barbara H. E. Zollner. Routledge, 2009
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

The Politics of Egypt: State-Society Relationship
By Ninette S. Fahmy. Routledge Curzon, 2002
Call Number: JQ3881 .F34 2002

The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement, 1928-1942
By Brynjar Lia. Ithaca Press, 1998
Call Number: DT107.82 .L53 1998