The comrades at Socialist Worker asked me to reflect on the Egyptian revolution on its tenth anniversary.
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Two Septembers
A report by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expressions, a local rights watchdog, on the September 2020 protests. I had written an article for Jacobin on the September 2019 protests, which you may also find relevant.
Read on »The New Arab Voice Podcast: Dreams of a Revolution
Revolution and Counterrevolution: The Arab Spring Ten Years On
Det Arabiske Forår slår fortsat gnister
I was interviewed by Danish journalist Jette Elbæk Maressa.
Read on »#Jan25 The Uprising
A radio interview I gave, on 26 January 2011, to Lilian Boctor of FSRN, aired on 27 January 2011.
Read on »Ägypten unter al-Sisi: „Das paranoideste Regime, das das Land je erlebt hat“
I was interviewed by German journalist Christoph Zempel.
Read on »January 1977: Egypt’s Bread Uprising
This is the MA dissertation I wrote in 2001, on the 1977 Egyptian intifada.
Read on »What’s left of the Arab Spring?
A talk I gave in Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, Berlin, on 28/01/2019.
Read on »Lessons from the Arab Spring
Part of an online talk I gave few months ago, organized by Marx21, on lessons from the first wave of Arab revolutions. I discussed five points:– Revolution is a process.– You cannot take over the state institutions. You have to smash them.– The need for a revolutionary organization.– The question of Islamism.– The street, ballot
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