Reform and Frustration in Egypt

Egyptians threw off the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, but now find themselves under essentially the same military tutelage that they had hoped to escape.

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.

This article makes a case of the basic distinction between Islam and Islamism and presents three central arguments: 1. through religious reforms and a rethinking of the Islamic doctrine, the…