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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt

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Egypt under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge. Maged Mandour (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2024). Pp. 224. $27.00 hardback. ISBN: 9780755649150

Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt. Atef Shahat Said (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). Pp. 334. $109.95 hardback, $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478025504

Counter Revolutionary Egypt: From the Midan to the Neighbourhood. Dina Wahba (London: Routledge, 2023). Pp. 138. $165.00 hardback. ISBN: 9781003408741

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2024

Hossam el-Hamalawy*
Affiliation:
Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany

Extract

Why did the Egyptian revolution happen? How did it happen? Was it planned? What did it achieve? Was it defeated? These are some of the questions that usually surface in January each year, and during grim anniversaries of the infamous massacres that Egyptians witnessed after the 2013 military coup against Egypt's first elected president.

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Book Review Essay
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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