Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Uprisings in Egypt: The Mobilisation and Ban of Popular Committees and Independent Trade Unions

By adopting Social Movement Theories (SMT) as a basic framework to analyze the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, this book disentangles the role of alternative networks and other forms of political conflict with reference to the Egyptian case in mobilising and forming a potential revolutionary movement. During the 2011 uprisings in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood monopolised the space of dissent, preventing the formation of common identities among the protesters. Particularly social actors in the “Egyptian Street” and other opposition groups did not find any place within the post-uprisings government and have been demobilised by the politics and political discourse of a pseudo Neo-Nasserism, implemented by the regime after the 2013 military coup. About the Author Giuseppe Acconcia is an award-winning journalist and researcher focusing on the Middle East. A Visiting Scholar University of California and a Lecturer at Cattolica University in Milan, he holds a PhD on the Uprisings in Egypt from Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests focus on youth and social movements, Iranian domestic politics, State and transformation in the Middle East, and Kurdish studies. He is the author of The Great Iran (2018), Liberi tutti (2015), Egypt: Military Democracy (2014) and The Egyptian Spring (2012). He has published in Le Monde diplomatique, MERIP and Social Movement Studies, among others.