TY - BOOK AU - El-Mahdi,Rabab AU - Marfleet,Philip TI - Egypt: the moment of change SN - 9781848130210 (pbk.) : AV - DT107.87 .E49 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Zed KW - Politischer Wandel KW - swd KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - Egypt KW - Politics and government KW - 1981- KW - Social conditions KW - Ägypten N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; State and society / Philip Marfleet -- Economic policy : from state control to decay and corruption / Ahmad El-Sayed El-Naggar -- The land and the people / Ray Bush -- Workers' struggles under "socialism" and neoliberalism / Joel Beinin -- The democracy movement : cycles of protest / Rabab El-Mahdi -- Islamism(s) old and new / Sameh Naguib -- Torture : a state policy / Aida Seif El-Dawla -- Mubarak in the international arena / Anne Alexander -- Conclusion : what's next? / Rabab El-Mahdi & Philip Marfleet N2 - This text comprehensively and accessibly examines contemporary issues in Egypt. It presents a series of analyses of politics, culture and society, including many by Egyptian academics and activists ER -