After Mubarak, Before Transition : The Challenges for Egypt’s Democratic Opposition

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The politics of fearlessness: Egypt’s second January uprising

New Crossings, New Heroes One image more than perhaps any other struck me as I watched transfixed the first days of the Egypt’s Second January Uprising: the struggle of protesters to cross bridges into Tahrir Square. What is already being called the ‘Battle of Kasr el-Nil’ was an epic effort on January 28th by virtually unarmed protesters to drive back the feared Egyptian security forces in their riot gear and armed with clubs, sticks, tear gas and water cannons. The protesters took beating upon beating, but they just kept coming. The security forces kept being driven back, slowly but surely. By the end of the afternoon, they just broke and ran, as the protesters symbolically entered Tahrir Liberation) Square in triumph

Orientalism as a form of Confession

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Political and Social Change in Egypt : Preludes to the January Uprising

Acknowledgements: The Arab Transformations Project is coordinated by the University of Aberdeen (UK) and includes further 11 partners: Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland; Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos (ASEP), Madrid, Spain; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy; Universität Graz (UNI GRAZ), Graz, Austria; Societatea Pentru Methodologia Sondajelor Concluzia- Prim (Concluzia), Chisinau, Moldova; Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria; Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (BASEERA); Cairo, Egypt; Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), Amman, Jordan; University of Jordan (JU), Amman, Jordan; MEDA Solutions (MEDAS), Casablanca, Morocco; Association Forum Des Sciences Sociales Appliquées (ASSF); Tunis, Tunisia.Publisher PD

Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations : A Reassessment

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Strangers in Plain Sight : Conceptions of Democracy in EU Neighbourhood Policy and in Public Opinion across North Africa

Open access via Taylor & Francis read and publish agreement Funder: Seventh Framework Programme Funding This work was supported by the EU’s 7 th Framework Programme (grant number 320214). Acknowledgements We would like to thank the anonymous reviewer(s) from the journal whose insightful commented on our article enabled us to significantly improve it. We alone remain responsible for the final version.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Prelude to the revolution : Independent civic activists in Mubarak’s Egypt and the quest for hegemony

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Building Decent Societies? Economic Situation and Political Cohesion After the Arab Uprisings

Acknowledgements The Arab Transformations Project is coordinated by the University of Aberdeen (UK) and includes further 11 partners: Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland; Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos (ASEP), Madrid, Spain; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy; Universität Graz (UNI GRAZ), Graz, Austria; Societatea Pentru Methodologia Sondajelor Concluzia-Prim (Concluzia), Chisinau, Moldova; Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria; Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (BASEERA); Cairo, Egypt; Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), Amman, Jordan; University of Jordan (JU), Amman, Jordan; MEDA Solutions (MEDAS), Casablanca, Morocco; Association Forum Des Sciences Sociales Appliquées (ASSF); Tunis, Tunisia. The author would also like to acknowledge the World Values Survey, Arab Barometer and Gallup Analytics on whose survey data they draw. We are also grateful to Viola Sanelli and Ilia Xypolia, at the University of Aberdeen, for material they supplied on the history and politics of the region.Publisher PD

A Generation in Waiting for Jobs and Justice : Young People Not in Education Employment or Training in North Africa

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