The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East by Juan Cole

Author:Juan Cole [Cole, Juan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

Egypt: From April 6 to Rebellion

Unlike the young activists in Tunisia, those in Egypt retained their momentum after the initial revolution and deployed shifting political alliances to have a continued impact on politics and the shape of the state. The military executive, headed by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, ruled from Mubarak’s fall until the June 2012 elections but was continually bedeviled by youth demonstrations, graffiti, and other challenges to its legitimacy. In that period the youth often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Mohamed Morsi’s presidency, from June 30, 2012, until his overthrow on July 3, 2013, was likewise subject to powerful challenges in the streets by a whole range of left-liberal youth movements. Morsi’s dictatorial tendencies, recalling some of the abuses of Mubarak’s style of rule, were ultimately checked by youth who allied against him with officers such as General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, even though the youth and the military had a history of animosity. How did the postrevolutionary youth movements end the careers of several prime ministers and yet another presidency and shape Egypt’s society and politics?1

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