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Egypt’s National Archives Documenting the Egyptian Uprising
Banner of martyr's photographs in Tahrir Square Historian Khaled Fahmy has a difficult task: to document the Egyptian revolution for the National Archives–a branch of the Egyptian state–while avoiding...
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The Egyptian Uprising Two Years On: Open Access Articles
A special issue of MERIP on the Egyptian revolution includes four open-access articles As the dramatic social changes in Egypt continue, every anniversary there is a call for reflections on how Egypt...
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How Social Media Networked The Egyptian Revolution
Could Egypt’s experience of Internet activism leading to revolution serve as a model for social movements everywhere? That seems to be one of the take-aways of David Faris’s book Dissent and Revolution...
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Did Social Media Cause The Egyptian Revolution?
I was recently asked (by otherwise sensible people), “Dr. Peterson, how would you assess the predominant media narrative that the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions—nicknamed ‘Facebook revolutions’ at the...
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Love And Fear in Egypt
Autocratic and democratic regimes are pretty much the same, says Joseph Massad in an article in the journal Public Culture. The chief difference is whether they seek to rule by love or fear. “The...
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Dying For The Revolution: Special Journal Issue
“Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them.” So writes Amira Mittermeier in the introduction to a special collection of articles in the anthropology journal Ethnos....
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“The Egyptian Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet”
I had dinner with Robin Wright this week after she delivered the 2016 Grayson-Kirk lecture at Miami University. Egypt was one of seven countries she discussed (along with Iran, Iraq, Libya, Saudi...
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Creating Participatory Democracy (Or Trying, Anyway)
In hindsight, the biggest problem with the extraordinary protests in Tahrir Square was the lack of a coherent plan for creating democracy once Mubarak stepped down. I hear that all the time from...
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Cleaning Up Cairo
One of the things I teach my students about power in my Peoples of the World class at Miami University is that power rests in the ways that we discipline ourselves to some moral order. We make power...
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“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Gets a Facebook Page
Its a book about the “Facebook revolution”, right? So it is only appropriate it finally gets its own Facebook page–concurrent with its coming out in paperback and as an e-book. The book is...
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Are The Media Using The Wrong Yardstick To Measure The Revolution?
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western media) is rooted in understandings of the revolutionary events that took...
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Bloodshed, Liminality & The Ends Of Egypt’s Revolution
The word “ends” has at least two significant meanings. We can speak of “ends” as goals, aspirations or outcomes. For example, we might ask, “What are the ends of the revolution? Full democracy or just...
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What Would A Muslim Brotherhood State Have Looked Like?
It’s one of the greatest controversies of the revolution: What would the state overseen by Egypt’s President Morsi have looked like if he had not been ousted in a popularly-supported military coup? The...
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New Book Chapter On Mediated Experience Of The Uprisings
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital Middle East: State and Society in the...
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Bibliography of the Egyptian Revolution Reaches 1000 Entries
Yesterday I was asked to review a paper on the Egyptian uprisings for an academic journal. After I read the manuscript, I went through the references, as I always do, to see if the text referenced any...
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The Internet & Democracy: Have We Learned Anything?
In the first wake of the Egyptian uprisings, and their framing as a “Facebook” revolution or Twitter revolution or “social media revolution” there was a lot of Utopian discourse about the power of...
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