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Most analyses of Egyptian politics present the limitations and failures of official political life as the complete story of politics in Egypt. Raymond Baker's direct observation of Egyptian politics has convinced him that alternative political groups have sustained themselves and carved out spaces for promising political action despite official efforts at containment.
In this compelling study, Baker recreates the public worlds of eight groups on the periphery of Egyptian politics. They range in their political stances from Communists to the Muslim Brothers and include shifting clusters of critical intellectuals who gather around influential journals or in research centers, as well as the quiescent aestheticists of the Wissa Wassef community. Taken together, the experiences of Egyptians in alternative groups reveal that Egyptians are more than the objects of diverse external pressures and more than the sufferers from multiple internal problems. They are alsocreative political actors who have stories to tell about the human potential to struggle for humane values and goals in the modern world.
In examining Egypt from the margins rather than from the center, Baker proposes a new direction for Third World political studies. He suggests a way out of the impasse in the current development literature, which is fixed on a scientific study of causes and determinants, by focusing on actual political struggles and alternative political visions.
In this compelling study, Baker recreates the public worlds of eight groups on the periphery of Egyptian politics. They range in their political stances from Communists to the Muslim Brothers and include shifting clusters of critical intellectuals who gather around influential journals or in research centers, as well as the quiescent aestheticists of the Wissa Wassef community. Taken together, the experiences of Egyptians in alternative groups reveal that Egyptians are more than the objects of diverse external pressures and more than the sufferers from multiple internal problems. They are alsocreative political actors who have stories to tell about the human potential to struggle for humane values and goals in the modern world.
In examining Egypt from the margins rather than from the center, Baker proposes a new direction for Third World political studies. He suggests a way out of the impasse in the current development literature, which is fixed on a scientific study of causes and determinants, by focusing on actual political struggles and alternative political visions.
Baker is right to insist that Egyptian society is much more than a single leader and the Egyptian governing bureaucracy. There are alternative groups, with their own power and influence, and they do have competing views of Egypt's future. Baker has a strong commitment to letting these groups speak for themselves. His knowledge of Egyptian society is impeccable. One hears the authentic voice of the Egyptians.
I have frequently been troubled at the complacency with which so many American officials look at Egypt and tend to take it for granted. There is serious need for public elaboration of those elements in Egyptian political society, which may for now be on the margins and therefore controllable, that deplore and sharply criticize the nature of the existing U.S.-Egyptian tie. Professor Baker's manuscript effectively does this... By examining marginal groups, as he has, Professor Baker may not yet have developed an independent theory on how such groups fit into theoretical analyses of Third World societies, but he has taken a significant step in that direction.
Raymond Baker wanted to write a book that would describe current Egyptian politics from the eyes of the men and women who constitute Egypt's power bases¿Raymond Baker's work is a must for Mid-East FAOs as it deals honestly with Egypt's internal politics. Being the largest population base in the Arab world and a leader in Arab and African Affairs this volume will dissect the pressures and influences in Egypt's political structure.
I have frequently been troubled at the complacency with which so many American officials look at Egypt and tend to take it for granted. There is serious need for public elaboration of those elements in Egyptian political society, which may for now be on the margins and therefore controllable, that deplore and sharply criticize the nature of the existing U.S.-Egyptian tie. Professor Baker's manuscript effectively does this... By examining marginal groups, as he has, Professor Baker may not yet have developed an independent theory on how such groups fit into theoretical analyses of Third World societies, but he has taken a significant step in that direction.
Raymond Baker wanted to write a book that would describe current Egyptian politics from the eyes of the men and women who constitute Egypt's power bases¿Raymond Baker's work is a must for Mid-East FAOs as it deals honestly with Egypt's internal politics. Being the largest population base in the Arab world and a leader in Arab and African Affairs this volume will dissect the pressures and influences in Egypt's political structure.