Overview

For too long Egypt s system of government was beholden to the interests of the elite in power, aided by the massive apparatus of the security state. Breaking point came on 25 January 2011. But several years after popular revolt enthralled a global audience, the struggle for democracy and basic freedoms are far from being won. Media, Revolution, and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country s democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president s year in office, and his ouster by the military. Activism has expanded freedoms of expression only to see those spaces contract with the resurrection of the police state. And with sharpening political divisions, the facts have become amorphous as ideological trends cling to their own narratives of truth.

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Author:   Abdalla F. Hassan
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.373kg
ISBN:  

9781784532185

ISBN 10:   1784532185
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Barriers Broken: Censorship's Limits 2. No Going Back: First Four Day of Revolution 3. Sustaining the Revolution 4. The Media after Mubarak's Downfall 5. What's Changed? Politics and the Press under Military Rule 6. Mubarak 2.0: Revolutionaries versus the Generals 7. Fall of Military Rule, the Islamists, and the Weight of Words 8. A President's Ouster and a Revitalised Security State 9. Conclusion: Media Lessons Bibliography

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Abdalla F. Hassan has worked as a multimedia journalist and editor based in Egypt for more than a decade and a half. In 2010 he was a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

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