This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces:
UPDATE: I was honored to speak with the author of the study, in a Zoom meeting.
Tag: 1977
January 1977: Egypt’s Bread Uprising
This is the MA dissertation I wrote in 2001, on the 1977 Egyptian intifada.
Egypt’s hidden history of dissent
The 25 January 2011 revolution is the product of a long process of dissent accumulation over decades in Egypt led by workers and students.
![[19-1-1977] Demonstrators protesting increased food prices regroup on a rubble strewn street in Cairo Wednesday, after battling the Central Security Forces (Photo by AP)](https://arabawy.org/wp-content/uploads//2007/11/Jan-1977-Bread-Intifada-e1427489793383-434x315.jpg)