Essays on Egyptian Revolution

Abstract

Living in the era of nano and hi-tech technologies the humanity faced the issue of the impact of social nets on the society. A special focus is made on the attraction of the opinion leaders ¬ people who are the most respectful among the visitors of social nets. As a result, such people have a very active position in life and, therefore, cannot stay apart from any world situation. They fancy being the active participants of the discussions, debates and other forms that let them express what they think. Not only they reveal the world their vision, but also make ...

Introduction and Thesis

A reflection on various countries all around the world depicts the persistent emergence of revolts against the ruling government (s). In the year 2011, the world woke up to the news that a major revolution was developing in Egypt. Often connoted as the “Arab Spring,” the revolution was characterized by the polarization of the Egyptians who had developed a negative notion against the government. The Egyptians perceived their government as corrupt, tyrannical, and oppressive. As a result, a significant portion of the Egyptians occupied the Tahrir Square in Cairo protesting against the ruling regime. In the beginning, only thousands ...

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The Middle East has been in the center of international attention for the past couple of years as the region has been embroiled in several conflicts that reshaped the region’s status quo. While a majority of the conflicts reported in the Middle East are caused by armed factions, some of these conflicts were brought by various social movements intending on forcing change to the country. Some of these social movements are brought in by the public themselves; hoping to pressure the government to impose reform. Some of these social movements sometimes meet failures, but there are those which ...

The Egypt revolution of 25 January 2011 was aimed at ending the regime of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak who had been the president of the country for quite some time. He was considered a dictator who did not have the interest of the country at heart but that of his own people. During his reign, there was little economic growth with a rise in the rate of unemployment. The country was still using government policies that had were implemented during the colonial time. They were hence not addressing the current needs of the society (Sharp65). There was also misuse of public amenities ...

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The 2011 revolution in Egypt saw the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and the end of his thirty years rule of Egypt. His overthrow was partly facilitated by the military which soon appointed an interim President. Democratic elections the next year saw the election of Morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood. But he was in power for only a year when a military coup deposed him. Ever since Egypt had under been a military rule with General Sisi as its current president. Egypt has long been a country which has been ruled by military strongmen and is a country where the military has numerous powers and ...

“The Square”, directed by Jehane Noujaim, is a documentary that was based on Egyptian revolution. This movie received wide acclamations and lodged its presence as a successful entertainer. This paper intends to discuss the movie, “The Square” and several other related aspects. The story of this movie revolves around the revolution that took place in Egypt in the year 2011. Egyptian citizens came out on the roads of Egypt and demonstrated at “Tehrir square” against the authoritarian rule of Hosni Mubarak. The transfer of power has been portrayed in this movie. The movie portrays different faces of Egyptian revolution and ...

The economic crisis in Egypt post January 2011

Abstract The paper looks into the economic crisis in Egypt and how the background was formed for the January 2011 revolution. How the crisis happened, what were the consequences and how Egypt can get back on track are some of the important questions that need to be looked into. The stability of the Mubarak regime was well under pressure even before the major changes in the political system followed. Even before the present revolution and reforms in Egypt, there were significant changes taking place in the political system. The nation was experiencing relative freedom of expression for the ...

Question one

Ideas on the role of the media in political conflicts have taken the form of advocacy in terms of mitigation that is based on agenda setting role of the media. In a sense, the media is regarded as the body that decides to place attention on particular political conflict thereby making it a matter of interest. Wolfsfeld, Segev and Sheafer conclude that the role of the media can be best understood from the perspective of developing an understanding of the implications of political factors. Later one can infer on the role of the media given the influences and dynamics in the ...

ENGL 131

Arabic Spring The topic of Arab Spring matters a lot in today’s world as it changed the course of Arab world in a short span of time. The Arab Spring started in December 2010 and engulfed the entire Arab world in very short span of time. It overthrew the long established monarchies and dictatorship through public protests and demonstrations ably helped by the social media. Lauri Laker highlights in his article “Arab Spring and Social Media Technology” that the two main actors of the Arab spring, the Arab youth and social media, both worked in coordination against the corruption and poverty ...

Introduction

The 2011 Egyptian Revolution, locally known as January 25 Revolution describes a widespread movement that happened after a popular uprising that started January 25, 2011 (Korotayev A., 2011; Siddique, Owen, & Gabbatt, 2011). The revolution was characterized by the demonstrations, plaza occupations, marches, riots, civil disobedience acts, non-violent civil resistance, and labor strikes. Millions of protesters of different backgrounds insisted of overthrowing Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian President . The violent clashes between protesters and security forces lead at least 846 deaths and 100,000 injured with 90 police stations burned . The protest took place in major towns such as Alexandria and Cairo. The ...

Syria and Egypt were recently shaken by the revolutions. People, in both of these nations, demonstrated against their governments and their resentment disrupted in the most atrocious way. This paper discusses Syrian and Egyptian revolutions and further examines effects of these revolutions along with discussing how these two revolutions were different. Egyptian revolution was a peaceful revolution. Some violent incidents took place during the protests in Egypt, but by and large, the whole movement was peaceful. Protestors, as well as the government, both hesitated from using violence. When protests escalated and Hosni Mubarak realized that he does not enjoy ...

November 23rd, 2013

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was part of a series of upheavals in 2011 known collectively as the “Arab Spring”. (Rastegari, 2012) The revolution focused on the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek. (Rastegari, 2012) The primary motivations for the revolution were political and legal issues. (Rastegari, 2012) Primary demands for the revolutionaries included the outer of Mubarek, ending police brutality, end of the “state of emergency” laws enacted by the government, and lack of freedom of speech. (Rastegari, 2012) In spite of these legitimate political issues, it was economic woes that truly motivated most peoples’ participation in the revolution. ( ...

In today’s world, the Internet pervades every aspect of life, from smartphones to streaming video. Every single human need for information or entertainment can be accessed with the push of a button, which creates a culture of immediacy that some people believe threatens societal development. However, it can be said that the Internet provides a bastion of information and communication that is unprecedented at any other point in history. This is found most clearly in the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter - these are hubs of information and modes of communication between millions of individuals at a ...

Us Foreign Policy towards Egypt

Introduction The United States of America and Egypt enjoy a good relationship politically, with no cases of tense situation existing between the two states. However, the political havoc hitting Egypt call for the United States to react. The foreign policy of the country may suggest that they use force and army reactions to the revolution. However, this might spoil the relationship between the two countries. Any move that will interfere with the relationship between the two countries should nit feature in the plans of the United States of America. The prosecution of people involved in the interference with the ...

The cold war was a faceoff between the superpowers of the democratic West and the communist East that lasted for 43 years. None of the two superpowers directly attacked the other but they fought concealed and explicit combats in an attempt to expand their influence across the world. However, negations were held during period of peaceful coexistence. Several theories have been used to explain the reasons behind the actions of the superpowers during the cold war. It was not until 1945 that the two super powers found themselves with enormous power and intense rivalry that might have appealed to third ...

Social Justice and Political Revolution – The Case of the Arab Spring

Social Media Growth is a Facilitator of Free Speech, Social Justice and Political Revolution: The Case of the Arab Spring Social media is acting as the harbinger of political and social change, especially in the Middle East. Since 2011, the use of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube has grown manifolds with millions accessing them through mobile phones. As has been evident through the Arab Spring uprisings in other Arab countries, Egypt and Tunisia in particular, social networking sites can play a crucial role in spurring protests and bringing about planned and coordinated revolts. These revolts hold ...

The Egypt revolution was considered the greatest success of the country as it paved way for more employment opportunities among the youth. This was meant to solve the unequal representation of the youth in key positions of national building. The youth form the highest population of the world and it is only fair if they are given the opportunity to express themselves and participate in national building. Before the revolution, the case of Egypt was different. There was unequal representation of the youth in the government as most of them remained unemployed. Most of the people in Hosni’s ...

The sociologists by the name Wright Mills identified a number of ways through which some of the sociological aspects that occurred could directly influence or shape up the thinking of an individual. For instance, Miller believed that the sociological context in which people live in could easily shape their thinking and so does their biography. He emphasised the importance of sociological factors such as historical event, a cultural trend, a feature of the economy and political events among others in shaping up the biography of individuals. In order to find out the relationship between social events and how they influence the ...

In recent news, the Middle East has been reported to have been under conflict as many protests and violence had been recorded against the leaders of their governments. Many of the protests concentrated on pushing for political, social, and economic reform while others wished for their governments to be changed entirely to introduce democracy and an open government. It is notable that the trend of protest and calls for reform had emerged after the successful revolution in Egypt wherein the Egyptian public protested against the continuous ruling of 29 year reigning President Hosni Mubarak. Arguably seen as the beginning ...

According to social theorist Karl Marx, revolution is "an unstoppable historical force growing out of class inequalities that are rooted in the ownership of the means of production" (Handelman, p. 221). In essence, the bourgeoisie, who are the ruling elite, controls through various means all the power and resources that are available to the detriment of the working class. This leaves the 'proletariat' unable to rise above their station or gain any agency in the government or nation to which they are dedicating their hard work and resources. Marx, in The German Ideology predicted that, in any such system ...

Introduction:

The world has turned into a global village causing the impact in one country to instigate riots in another part of the world. One of the major reasons behind this emergence of a village is technology. Currently, the most favored version of the technological advancement is the social media. It has played a huge role in the recent political and social changes that have taken place around the world.

Thesis:

The riots that took place in London and the wave of revolution that gripped the Middle East, starting from Egypt can be explained largely through the theories of media and social change. The ...

This paper intends to discuss the article, “Egypt after Mubarak”. The article is authored by Paul Amar who is working as an associate professor at global and international studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Paul is a well known name in the arena of comparative politics, global ethnography, international political study, theories of gender and race. A number of books, research works, articles and other scholarly items are written by Prof. Amar. The article that we are going to discuss in this paper was published in a magazine, ‘The Nation’ on 23 may, 2011. The nation is a ...

Totalitarianism and dictatorship has been a large part of the Middle East for a long time; due to lack of organization by the people who wish for greater freedom in their own country, it was nearly impossible to foment a successful revolution that would facilitate change. However, in the case of Egypt in 2011, an increase in resolve, as well as greater connectivity due to the Internet and social media, allowed the Egyptian people to rise up against their president and demand he be removed from power. The Arab Spring, and the Egyptian Revolution in particular, was the product of a Marxist theory ...

ARTICLE REVIEW

If there has been a recent event that has affected the world greatly after the tragic events of 2001, it has been the Egyptian revolution. Unpredictable, inconceivable and simply unbelievable, the month of February 2011 that marked the uprising of Egyptians for freedom from a seemingly eternity-long tyrannical rule of Hossein Mubarak was a historical moment. How did the Egyptians manage to walk out on streets and display unanimity in opposing to the dictatorship of Mubarak circulated as the million dollar question. It is still a heated debate topic among various political analysts who are still struggling to comprehend this wave of revolution ...

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011

Totalitarianism and dictatorship has been a large part of the Middle East for a long time; due to lack of organization by the people who wish for greater freedom in their own country, it was nearly impossible to foment a successful revolution that would facilitate change. However, in the case of Egypt in 2011, an increase in resolve, as well as greater connectivity due to the Internet and social media, allowed the Egyptian people to rise up against their president and demand he be removed from power.

The lead-up to the Egyptian Revolution stems all the way back to the rise to ...