... Joel Beinin History, Stanford Abstract Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was ... more ... Joel Beinin History, Stanford Abstract Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was primarily an oral art until it was appropriated by the Egyptian nationalist literati in the late nineteenth century. The work of Ya'qub Sannu' (1839-1912), 'Abd Allah al-Nadim (1844-1896 ...
... The best chapter, as might be expected, is that by Leonard Binder who traces the various ways... more ... The best chapter, as might be expected, is that by Leonard Binder who traces the various ways in which Nasser has been ... The Marxists offered a posthumous socialist reconstruction, Taufiqal-Hakim bemoaned the loss of idealism, others criticized his good intentions, while the ...
THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN EGYPT 1920-1988 TAREQ Y. ISMAEL and RIFAAT EL-SA'ID Based on a wea... more THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN EGYPT 1920-1988 TAREQ Y. ISMAEL and RIFAAT EL-SA'ID Based on a wealth of primary sources as well as personal contacts and interviews, this timely book examines the origins, evolution, and role of the Communist party in Egypt. ...
... the centrality of historical processes in the understand-ing of political formations in the p... more ... the centrality of historical processes in the understand-ing of political formations in the present, we provide the following highly abbreviated history of Palestine, Israel, and the ... Control of theborder-crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt remains unresolved as of this writing ...
shared their memories, papers, and hearts with me in the course of my research for this book. Wit... more shared their memories, papers, and hearts with me in the course of my research for this book. Without their assistance, this book would have been an entirely different and inferior product. Their names are listed in the Bibliography. Many Egyptian Jews as well as other friends and colleagues saved clippings from the Israeli and Egyptian press for me, allowed me to copy personal papers, or gave me books, magazines, and other materials that were invaluable sources for this book. Among them were
Page 1. The RISE of EGYPTIAN COMMUNISM, j'.'Vi ... more Page 1. The RISE of EGYPTIAN COMMUNISM, j'.'Vi 1939-1970 -*tC*£ V1 > ;# . Selma Botman Page 2. I 1 EGYPTIAN The Rise of COMMUNISM 1939-1970 Selma Botman Selma Botman examines the virtually un-known ...
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was founded in 1971 as a project of the ... more The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was founded in 1971 as a project of the American New Left in solidarity with and drawing inspiration from the Beirut-centered Arab New Left and anti-imperialist struggles for national liberation in the Middle East and North Africa. The question of Palestine was a central, but certainly not exclusive, concern. From its origins MERIP was committed to political economy as a key method to understanding the Middle East and North Africa. It highlighted the importance of oil in the regional power structure and to the emergent U.S. empire. Many of its articles featured analyses of the social relationships of class and capital. MERIP was wary of “Arab socialism” and pan-Arab nationalism as official state ideologies. Its analysis of the 1979 Iranian revolution won MERIP and its emphasis on the importance of political economy a respected place in Anglo-American academia. Political economy never disappeared from MERIP's orientation, a...
Workers' movements contributed substantially to the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt,... more Workers' movements contributed substantially to the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain. Comparing the role of workers before, during and after the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt demonstrates that the relatively successful installation of a procedural democracy in Tunisia owes a great deal to the movements of workers and the unemployed in the uprisings and to their organisational structure and political horizon. Tunisian workers could compel the Tunisian General Federation of Labor (UGTT), despite the wishes of its pro-Ben Ali national leadership, to join them and the rest of the Tunisian people in a struggle against autocracy. Egyptian workers, on the other hand, were not able to force the Egyptian Trade Union Federation(ETUF) to support the uprising and had no national organisations and only weak links to intellectuals.
Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil soci... more Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regimes were fairly effective in blocking the emergence of truly independent associations of any sort. In fact, “civil society organizations” played only a small role in mobilizing the demonstrations and occupations of public space that were the emblematic expressions of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Egyptian and other Arab popular uprisings were not the result of proliferating NGOs or “building civil society.” Rather, they were the consequence of converging vectors of diverse social protest movements over the previous decades involving urban intel...
... But to understand the specific characteristics of the Egyptian workers' movement we must... more ... But to understand the specific characteristics of the Egyptian workers' movement we must consider not only the accumu? ... with European workers, as this excerpt from al-Liwa shows: Your cause is not only the cause of the tramway workers but the cause of all Egyptian workers. ...
... Joel Beinin History, Stanford Abstract Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was ... more ... Joel Beinin History, Stanford Abstract Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was primarily an oral art until it was appropriated by the Egyptian nationalist literati in the late nineteenth century. The work of Ya'qub Sannu' (1839-1912), 'Abd Allah al-Nadim (1844-1896 ...
... The best chapter, as might be expected, is that by Leonard Binder who traces the various ways... more ... The best chapter, as might be expected, is that by Leonard Binder who traces the various ways in which Nasser has been ... The Marxists offered a posthumous socialist reconstruction, Taufiqal-Hakim bemoaned the loss of idealism, others criticized his good intentions, while the ...
THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN EGYPT 1920-1988 TAREQ Y. ISMAEL and RIFAAT EL-SA'ID Based on a wea... more THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN EGYPT 1920-1988 TAREQ Y. ISMAEL and RIFAAT EL-SA'ID Based on a wealth of primary sources as well as personal contacts and interviews, this timely book examines the origins, evolution, and role of the Communist party in Egypt. ...
... the centrality of historical processes in the understand-ing of political formations in the p... more ... the centrality of historical processes in the understand-ing of political formations in the present, we provide the following highly abbreviated history of Palestine, Israel, and the ... Control of theborder-crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt remains unresolved as of this writing ...
shared their memories, papers, and hearts with me in the course of my research for this book. Wit... more shared their memories, papers, and hearts with me in the course of my research for this book. Without their assistance, this book would have been an entirely different and inferior product. Their names are listed in the Bibliography. Many Egyptian Jews as well as other friends and colleagues saved clippings from the Israeli and Egyptian press for me, allowed me to copy personal papers, or gave me books, magazines, and other materials that were invaluable sources for this book. Among them were
Page 1. The RISE of EGYPTIAN COMMUNISM, j'.'Vi ... more Page 1. The RISE of EGYPTIAN COMMUNISM, j'.'Vi 1939-1970 -*tC*£ V1 > ;# . Selma Botman Page 2. I 1 EGYPTIAN The Rise of COMMUNISM 1939-1970 Selma Botman Selma Botman examines the virtually un-known ...
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was founded in 1971 as a project of the ... more The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was founded in 1971 as a project of the American New Left in solidarity with and drawing inspiration from the Beirut-centered Arab New Left and anti-imperialist struggles for national liberation in the Middle East and North Africa. The question of Palestine was a central, but certainly not exclusive, concern. From its origins MERIP was committed to political economy as a key method to understanding the Middle East and North Africa. It highlighted the importance of oil in the regional power structure and to the emergent U.S. empire. Many of its articles featured analyses of the social relationships of class and capital. MERIP was wary of “Arab socialism” and pan-Arab nationalism as official state ideologies. Its analysis of the 1979 Iranian revolution won MERIP and its emphasis on the importance of political economy a respected place in Anglo-American academia. Political economy never disappeared from MERIP's orientation, a...
Workers' movements contributed substantially to the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt,... more Workers' movements contributed substantially to the 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain. Comparing the role of workers before, during and after the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt demonstrates that the relatively successful installation of a procedural democracy in Tunisia owes a great deal to the movements of workers and the unemployed in the uprisings and to their organisational structure and political horizon. Tunisian workers could compel the Tunisian General Federation of Labor (UGTT), despite the wishes of its pro-Ben Ali national leadership, to join them and the rest of the Tunisian people in a struggle against autocracy. Egyptian workers, on the other hand, were not able to force the Egyptian Trade Union Federation(ETUF) to support the uprising and had no national organisations and only weak links to intellectuals.
Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil soci... more Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regimes were fairly effective in blocking the emergence of truly independent associations of any sort. In fact, “civil society organizations” played only a small role in mobilizing the demonstrations and occupations of public space that were the emblematic expressions of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Egyptian and other Arab popular uprisings were not the result of proliferating NGOs or “building civil society.” Rather, they were the consequence of converging vectors of diverse social protest movements over the previous decades involving urban intel...
... But to understand the specific characteristics of the Egyptian workers' movement we must... more ... But to understand the specific characteristics of the Egyptian workers' movement we must consider not only the accumu? ... with European workers, as this excerpt from al-Liwa shows: Your cause is not only the cause of the tramway workers but the cause of all Egyptian workers. ...
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely un... more Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen.
The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.
Drawn from presentations at the Political Economy Project’s founding workshop, the authors in thi... more Drawn from presentations at the Political Economy Project’s founding workshop, the authors in this issue seek to define and interrogate the field of political economy and address how they actually “do” political economy. While authors agree on the interdisciplinary study of political economy as well as the basic tenets of the Marxist tradition, they nevertheless present various perspectives. Also included in this issue is a vast and evolving annotated bibliography of recommended texts in political economy.
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The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.
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