Dalia F. Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism

Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

A nuanced investigation into the state of liberalism in Egypt

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781780748825
• ISBN-10: 1780748825
• Artikelnr.: 43428985

Autorenporträt

Dalia Fahmy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Long Island University. She lives in New Jersey. Daanish Faruqi is a PhD candidate in History at Duke University, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Egyptian liberals, from revolution to counterrevolution Daanish Faruqi
and Dalia F. Fahmy
Introduction
The genealogies of Egyptian liberalism
Structure of the argument
Conclusion: Is liberalism contradictory?
SECTION I: LIBERALISM AND THE EGYPTIAN STATE
2 Egypt’s structural illiberalism: How a weak party system undermines
participatory politics Dalia F. Fahmy
The party system in Egypt
Elections in Egypt and why they matter
The parliament as a site of contestation
Political parties after the revolution: A liberal possibility
Participatory politics under SCAF and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
The 2015 parliament: The political consolidation of authoritarian rule
Conclusion
3 Nasser’s comrades and Sadat’s brothers: Institutional legacies and the
downfall of the Second Egyptian Republic Hesham Sallam
The failure of contingent consent
Institutional legacies and the limitations of agency-centered narratives
The origins of the political field
Conclusion
4 (De)liberalizing judicial independence in Egypt Sahar F. Aziz
The three prongs of liberalism: Private, political, and legal liberty
The liberal roots of Egypt’s judiciary
Incremental deliberalization in the Mubarak era
A counterrevolution in the courts
Conclusion
SECTION II: LIBERALISM AND EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY
5 The authoritarian state’s power over civil society Ann M. Lesch
The structures of authoritarianism
The post-25 January military regime
Mohammad Morsi’s contradictory policies
General Sisi’s constriction of the public space
The consolidation of authoritarian control
6 Myth or reality?: The discursive construction of the Muslim Brotherhood
in Egypt Mohamad Elmasry
The Egyptian press system
Disloyal to Egypt
Anti-revolutionary
Conclusion
7 Student political activism in democratizing Egypt Abdel-Fattah Mady
Introduction
Emergence of Egypt’s student movement
Student activism under Nasser
Student activism during Sadat’s era
Student activism during Mubarak’s era
Post-January 25, 2011 revolution
Conclusion
SECTION III: ISLAM, SECULARISM, AND THE STATE
8 Egypt’s secularized intelligentsia and the guardians of truth Khaled
Abou El Fadl
9 The truncated debate: Egyptian liberals, Islamists, and ideological
statism Ahmed Abdel Meguid and Daanish Faruqi
Introduction
Liberals and the state: Authoritarian modernism
Islamists and the state: The modernist paradox
Conclusion: Post-Islamism and post-liberalism as post-statism
SECTION IV: EGYPTIAN LIBERALS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE POST-2013
10 Conflict and reconciliation: “Arab liberalism” in Syria and Egypt
Emran El-Badawi
Introduction
State advocacy and the beginnings of Arab liberalism
Activism and state opposition: The later development of Arab liberalism
Egypt and Syria no more
Silencing liberal activism in Egypt, ca. 1979–2013
Activists in conflict and artists in reconciliation, Egypt, ca. 2013–
Temporary reconciliation with Assad, Syrian intellectuals, ca. 1982–2012
Conflict, exile and civil war: Liberal activism in Syria, ca. 2000–12
Burhan Ghalioun and Gaber Asfour, ca. 1990–2010
The Arab uprisings, 2011
Ghalioun and the SNC, 2011–12
Asfour, the ministry and Egypt’s return to military rule, 2011–14
Rabaa
The limits of Arab liberalism
11 Egypt’s new liberal crisis Joel Gordon
Heroes of the revolution
The liberal crisis reconsidered
Postscript: Five years on
12 Egyptian liberals and their anti-democratic deceptions: A contemporary
sad narrative Amr Hamzawy
Liberal ideas at a crossroads
Grand deception one – Sequentialism
Grand deception two – Nothing is more important than…
Grand deception three – The notion of national necessity
Grand deception four – Religion and politics
Grand deception five – The state above everyone and everything
Concluding remarks – Fascist techniques stepped up
Conclusion: Does liberalism have a future in Egypt? Emad El-Din Shahin
A liberal legacy
New beginnings
About the contributors
Index