The Revolution That Wasn’t
Hugh Roberts, 12 September 2013
The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
by Roger Owen.
Harvard, 248 pp., £18.95, May 2012,978 0 674 06583 3 Show More
by Roger Owen.
Harvard, 248 pp., £18.95, May 2012,
Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
by Joshua Stacher.
Stanford, 221 pp., £22.50, April 2012,978 0 8047 8063 6 Show More
by Joshua Stacher.
Stanford, 221 pp., £22.50, April 2012,
Raging against the Machine: Political Opposition under Authoritarianism in Egypt
by Holger Albrecht.
Syracuse, 248 pp., £25, October 2012,978 0 8156 3320 4 Show More
by Holger Albrecht.
Syracuse, 248 pp., £25, October 2012,
Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen: Egypt’s Road to Revolt
by Hazem Kandil.
Verso, 303 pp., £16.99, November 2012,978 1 84467 961 4 Show More
by Hazem Kandil.
Verso, 303 pp., £16.99, November 2012,
“... and the Brothers? And so Morsi and the FJP rolled with the killer punch and gamely stayed in the ring, perhaps secretly hoping that the Scaf would make Shafiq the winner and almost certainly knowing, the moment they were awarded the poisoned chalice, that the fight was irretrievably lost and all they could do was prolong it in a gruelling last round that ... ”