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Egypt's 2011 Uprising, Islamism, and the Unpopularity of Being Popular

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DAVID B.OTTAWAY. The Arab World Upended: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Tunisia and Egypt. (London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2017). Pp.269. $38.83 (hardcover). ISBN 9781626376205.
GILLIANKENNEDY. From Independence to Revolution: Egypt's Islamist and the Contest for Power. (London: Hurst & Company. 2017). Pp.262. $12.00 (paper). ISBN 9781849047050.
JACKSHENKER. The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution. (London: The New Press. 2016). Pp.538. $22.55 (hardcover). ISBN 9781620972557.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2022

James Toth
James Toth*
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Extract

Descriptions and analyses of the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings constitute a veritable cottage industry for journalists, academics, and think-tank consultants. The three books under review here join an ever-expanding library that documents and interprets those crucial events in December 2010 and January 2011, that so passionately raised our hopes only to later so bitterly crush them.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , December 2021 , pp. 284 - 294
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.

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References

1 Essam Al-Amin. “The Grand Scam: Spinning Egypt's Military Coup.” Counterpunch. July 19-21, 2013. https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/19/the-grand-scam-spinning-egypts-military-coup/ (accessed 15 February 2022).

2 Patrick Kingsley. “Protesters Across Egypt Call For Mohamed Morsi To Go.” The Guardian. June 30, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/mohamed-morsi-egypt-protests (accessed 15 February 2022).

3 Others observers were equally skeptical. Amjad Almonzer calculated a crowd size of 400,000 on that day; Shareef Ismail estimated 2.7 million protesters demonstrated throughout the country, and Clark McPhail determined that 632,000 alone demonstrated in Cairo but that no more than a few million people protested in the entire country. Amjad Almonzer is cited in Essam Al-Amin. “Egypt's Fateful Day.” Counterpunch. June 26, 2013. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/26/egypts-fateful-day/ (accessed 15 February 2022). Shareef Ismail is cited in Ruth Alexander. “Counting Crowds: Was Egypt's Uprising The Biggest Ever?” BBC News. July 16, 2013. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23312656 (accessed 15 February 2022), and Clark McPhail wrote in Middle East Monitor. “June 30 anti-Morsi crowd figures just don't add up.” Middle East Monitor. May 5, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20200321162722/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140505-june-30-anti-morsi-crowd-figures-just-don-t-add-up/ (accessed 15 February 2022).

4 Al-Amin, op. cit., “Egypt's Fateful Day.”

5 https://www.haaretz.com/cairo-firing-army-heads-averted-coup-1.5284375.

6 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ittihadiya-clashes-planned-coup-or-deadly-attack-sit).