TY - BOOK ID - 103633306 TI - Arab spring in Egypt : revolution and beyond AU - Korany, Bahgat AU - El-Mahdi, Rabab PY - 2012 SN - 9774165365 1306492653 1617973556 9774166469 1617971367 1617974943 9789774166464 9789774165368 9781617971365 9781617973550 9781617974946 PB - Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, DB - UniCat KW - Arab Spring, 2010 KW - -Revolutions - Egypt KW - Protest movements - Egypt - History - 21st century KW - Democratization - Egypt - History - 21st century KW - Egypt - History - Protests, 2011 KW - -Egypt - Politics and government - 21st century KW - -Revolutions KW - Protest movements KW - Democratization KW - Egypt KW - History KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103633306 AB - Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in the region's most populous country, Egypt, led to key questions of why, how, and with what consequences did this occur?Inspired by the "contentious politics" school and Social Movement Theory, Arab ER -