Egypt & Arab Spring
Egypt is a desert country located in the northeastern tip of Africa with a long and rich history dating back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Thanks in part to the annual flooding of the Nile River, which runs south to north through the country, Egypt was one of the world's first urban, literate, societies with a centralized government and organized religion, marking it as a "cradle of civilization." Egypt is commonly known for their famous, historical, architectural landmarks such as the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, Valley of Kings, and others. Over the years, Egypt was colonized and ruled by many nations, but became a sovereign country again in 1952 when it gained independence from the British Empire.
Country Facts
Capital: Cairo
Official Language: Arabic
Primary Religion: Muslim
Population: 107,770,524 (2022 est.)
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The Arab Spring was a wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their regimes in quick succession, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab countries. Not every country saw success in the protest movement, however, and demonstrators expressing their political and economic grievances were often met with violent crackdowns by their countries’ security forces. For detailed coverage of the Arab Spring in individual countries, see Jasmine Revolution (Tunisia), Egypt Uprising of 2011, Yemen Uprising of 2011–12, Libya Revolt of 2011, and Syrian Civil War.
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Suggested Articles
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After the Arab SpringThe article discusses the impact of Arab Spring revolts and protests beginning in 2010 on scientists in several Arab countries. Topics include the impact of political control and censorship on scientific research in Tunisia before the overthrow of dictator Ben Ali, problems in state support for scientific research in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and a January 2013 attack on the University of Aleppo, Syria in the context of Syria's civil war.
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The economic cost of the Arab Spring: the case of the Egyptian revolutionThis paper analyzes the effects that the Arab Spring and the subsequent revolution had on per capita real Gross Domestic Product in Egypt. The estimation procedure that we follow is the synthetic control method. After comparing the observed evolution of Egyptian real output in the period 2011–2017 with that of synthetic Egypt, our estimates show (i) an accumulated loss in the growth rate of per capita real Gross Domestic Product of 12.04% (a yearly average of 1.56%); (ii) an accumulated loss in the per capita real Gross Domestic Product of 6279.7 dollars (a yearly average of 897.1 dollars); and (iii) an accumulated loss in the aggregate real Gross Domestic Product of 582.5 billion dollars (a yearly average of 83.2 billion dollars).
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Religion in the Arab Spring: Between Two Competing Narratives.Did religion promote or discourage participation in protest against authoritarian regimes during the Arab Spring? Using unique data collected in Tunisia and Egypt soon after the fall of their respective regimes, we examine how various dimensions of religiosity were associated with higher or lower levels of protest during these important events. Using these original new data, we reach a novel conclusion: Qur’an reading, not mosque attendance, is robustly associated with a considerable increase in the likelihood of participating in protest. Furthermore, this relationship is not simply a function of support for political Islam. Evidence suggests that motivation mechanisms rather than political resources are the reason behind this result. Qur’an readers are more sensitive to inequities and more supportive of democracy than are nonreaders. These findings suggest a powerful new set of mechanisms by which religion may, in fact, help to structure political protest more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Role of the New Media in the Arab SpringThis article examines the role of the new media in the ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It argues that although the new media is one of the factors in the social revolution among others such as social and political factors in the region, it nevertheless played a critical role especially in light of the absence of an open media and a civil society. The significance of the globalization of the new media is highlighted as it presents an interesting case of horizontal connectivity in social mobilization as well signaling a new trend in the intersection of new media and conventional media such as television, radio, and mobile phone. One of the contradictions of the present phase of globalization is that the state in many contexts facilitated the promotion of new media due to economic compulsion, inadvertently facing the social and political consequences of the new media.
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Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab SpringWhat underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak labor market conditions. This pattern is especially pronounced in those countries that saw significant upheaval during the first year of the Arab Spring uprisings. We argue that the lack of adequate economic opportunities for an increasingly educated populace can help us understand episodes of regime instability such as the Arab Spring. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Selected Books on Egypt
Selected Books on the Arab Spring
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- History of Egypt) DT43 - DT154
- Egyptian Politics & Arab Spring) JQ1758 - JQ3981
- Egyptian Folklore) GR99.6 - GR390
- Egyptian Anthropology) GN550 - GN674
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