This book intends to throw light on the 'Arab Spring' of 2011 by investigating the specific experience of Egypt. To this end, the revolution in Egypt and its subsequent development are situated within a historical framework of a decade of protest movements and new forms of opposition politics. The book's main argument is that the proliferation of protest movements and groups since 2000 played a significant role in creating a context in which the 2011 mass revolt and the ousting of Mubarak was possible. The book examines a new generation of political activists that arose in response to ever-increasing grievances against authoritarian politics, deteriorating living conditions for the majority of Egyptians as a consequence of neo-liberal policies and the machinery of crony capitalism, and an almost total abandoning by the state of its responsibilities to society at large.

� propos de l?auteur

Maha Abdelrahman is a Lecturer at the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Among her publications are Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt, (2004), 'The Transnational and the Local: Egyptian Activists and Transnational Protest Networks' British Journal of Middle East Studies (2011). 'NGOs and the Dynamics of the Egyptian Labour Market' Development in Practice (2007), 'The Nationalization of the Human Rights Debate in Egypt' Nations and Nationalism (2007).

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