In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of democratization in the
In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of democratization in the
To prepare for writing this ethnography, Shehata (Arab Politics, Georgetown University) spent a year working as a winding machine operator in Egypt--experience that lends particular weight to this stu