Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 309 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, map; 20 cm

Summary

1. "In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected: Mohamed Morsi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, which for half a century had been banned from operating publicly in the country. But, after only a year in office, Morsi was forced out by popular protests and the military establishment. In this revised and updated edition of his acclaimed book, Tarek Osman sets the current battle for the Egyptian state in the wider context of the country's recent history. Famous until the 1950s for its religious pluralism and extraordinary cultural heritage, Egypt has become an increasingly unhappy and divided land, home to a largely undereducated and underemployed population, more than half of whom are aged under thirty. Osman examines the crucial roles of Arab nationalism, the Islamic movement, Egyptians Christians and liberal capitalism in the country's recent past and present, and asks: where does Egypt's future lie now?"

Subject

1. Egypt
2. Egypt > Social conditions > 1952-1970
3. History
4. Egypt > Social conditions > 1981-
5. Egypt > Social conditions > 1970-1981
6. Since 1952
7. Egypt > History > 1981-2011
8. Egypt > History > 1970-1981
9. Egypt > History > 1952-1970
10. Social conditions

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Egypt's world -- Nasser and Arab nationalism -- The Islamists -- The rise of liberal capitalism -- Egyptian Christians -- The Mubarak years -- Young Egyptians -- Conclusion.

Call number

1. JFD 13-407

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

Author

1. Osman, Tarek.

Title

1. Egypt on the brink : from Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood / Tarek Osman.

Publisher

1. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.

Edition

1. Revised and updated edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

Chronological term

1. Since 1952

LCCN

1. 2014412022

ISBN

1. 9780300198690 (pbk.)
2. 0300198698 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFD 13-407