... Occupying Tahrir Square: The Myths and the Realities of the Egyptian Revolution ​In May 2011, after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians occupied Tahrir Square and succeeded in deposing their dictator, Hosni Mubarak, Vanity Fair published photos of a number of the victorious...

... was, however, actualized in the encampments on Tahrir and Taksim, where utopian communities flourished. In Tahrir, the police state was driven out. In Taksim, money was abolished, and everything was for free. Beyond comparing these utopian dreamscapes, Holmes’s essay also addresses the movements’ relationships...

... quickly spread to Egypt, Yemen, and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The encampments in Tahrir Square were an inspiration for other practices in major cities across the globe, from Madrid, Tel Aviv, and Athens to New York and London. A cycle of struggles formed...

..., of course, did not come out of nowhere. The Tunisian revo- lution had already ignited unexpectedly. People saw on television and in the newspapers images of common people in revolt. And then came the Tahrir Square occupation in Cairo. Suddenly the Arab world exploded into a stage of public expression...

... © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Index to Volume 111 Abul-Magd, Zeinab, Occupying Tahrir Square: The Myths and the Realities of the Egyptian Revolution 565 Adamson, Morgan, Labor, Finance, and Counterrevolution: Finally Got the News at the End of the Short American Century 803 Adkins, Lisa...

... of other recent challenges to status quo power: with those who refused to vacate Tahrir and Zuccotti park, or those who gathered before a corner of strip malls and Laundromats in Ferguson, carv- ing out a meaningful place of live encounter in a terrain expressly designed to prevent it. As this goes...

... in Tunisia and spread to create a new form of social organization in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, to the revolts by the Span- ish indignados and the Greek aganaktismenoi spurred by eurozone structural adjustment...

..., and one of the most difficult to discern from the outside, was the inter­ nal organization and functioning of those occupying Tahrir Square and the structures for decision making of the multitude that maintained a presence there. The occupants of the square sought to bring together a wide range...

... to the Central Committee of the Sudanese Communist Party” [in Arabic], Al-Shioui 127 (1966): 29. 24 Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, “Al-Marxiyya wa tahrir al-mara” (“Marxism and Women’s Eman- cipation Al-Shioui 131 (1968): 49–83; hereafter cited parenthetically by page number as “Al-Marxiyya.” 25...

...- cent of the city’s wealth. At first Bloombergville attracted around one hun- dred protesters, and their numbers soon dwindled. The momentum was not lost, however. Combining the styles of the Spanish 15M assemblies and Egyptian square occupations, Adbusters called for a “Tahrir moment.”10...

...) overlaps with the appropriation of physical, digital and media space. We can say that technop- olitics is present in the Gilets Jaunes movement because they engaged these three levels of space. However, unlike the movement of the squares, includ- ing Occupy, Tahrir Square, the Spanish indignados...

... in the streets, targeting banks and other representations of power seen as the culprits of the crisis. ¡No nos representan! (They Don’t Represent Us from the plazas of Spain; ¡Ya basta! (Enough written in Spanish on placards in Syntagma Square, Greece; Kefaya! (Enough shouted in Tahrir Square, Egypt...

... when the accumulation of riots—from the “commodity riots” of the 2011 London sort to the “historical riots” in the Tahrir Square mold—forms a pattern that begins to take on a certain disordered coherence; it is also to anticipate a moment when this proliferation of struggles will begin to seek...

... as the rioters in Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, and Gezi Park?—the problem with this equation is that it repeats the very gesture of neoliberalism as the politi- cal form of capitalist resurgence: the erasure of 150 years of struggle. Pre- cisely because of these struggles there are ideals, practices...

... ​What, if anything, is intrinsically spatial about saying no to austerity, or to capitalism generally? It certainly appears that the urban character of recent popular uprisings—from Tahrir Square to Syntagma...

... wave” of the 2011 Magreb and Mashreq insurrections seems to have crossed the Mediterranean shore. A new transnational space of strug- gle was created in front of the logistical cages known as warehouses. “This is our Tahrir square” was a common phrase. Migrant logistics workers felt they were...

..., for example. The uprisings usually start from small or routine occur- rences (the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a regular antipolice demonstration in Tahrir Square, fake elections in Russia, the rejection of the Ukraine–European Union Associate Agreement) and unpredictably attract a large...

... of a string of color revolutions, yet their passive resistance occurred only a stone's throw away from the clashes between the Beijing Workers’ Autonomous Federation and the Chinese “People's” Liberation Army. 10 During the Egyptian Arab Spring, crowds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a way...

..., the cycle of occupations and encampments at the beginning of the 2010s from Tahrir to Taksim, passing through the Indignados in Spain, Syntagma Square in Athens, Occupy in the United States, and many other points, opened a new field of theoretical innovation, particularly with regard to what...

... there, cause it s a mother, a heavy Egypt. The universal machine is a sex machine called the Kalakuta Republic, which is the erotic republic of the open-air cell, as ¤eetingly and repetitively extra(geo)metrical as tahrir. We think of this place, or place/meant, as rhythm, but it s manifest is anarhythmic...