Building upon recent scholarly interest in popular revolution in Egypt and the Middle East, Adel Abdel Ghafar analyzes labor and student mobilization across four distinct historical eras in Egyptians in Revolt. Abdel Ghafar adopts a “hybrid theoretical model” that combines the political economy framework developed by Alan Richards and John Waterbury with the social movement theory proposed by Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow, and others. This analytical and theoretical approach allows Abdel Ghafar to chart and analyze the historical processes of social mobilization amid distinct historical eras, across class boundaries, and between state and society.
Egyptians in Revolt is structured around four distinct historical periods: the pre-1952 era, the Nasser era (1952–1970), the Sadat era (1970–1981), and the Mubarak era (1981–2011). While the Mubarak era is divided into two distinct chapters for opaque reasons, each chapter follows a similar analytical script in which the author provides an overview of the...
