Turbulent years in Egypt, 2000-2011: social protests and their effects on the uprising of january 25, 2011

Download

index.pdf

Date

2019

Author

Oğur, Gülfer

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

269
views

106
downloads

This thesis argues that the notion of an “Arab Awakening” in the Arab uprisings that started in Tunisia in 2010 and spread to Egypt and across the region is not a fair assessment. Protest movements had already been going on for many years in the countries where these uprisings took place. This thesis considers each of these uprisings to be a separate case and therefore argues that the processes that each country underwent should be evaluated within the framework of that country’s own internal dynamics. In this context, the thesis deals with the waves of protests during the period leading up to the January 25 uprisings in Egypt, particularly in the last decade, and especially with the changing of protest culture. The thesis claims that Egypt’s protest culture began to spread with the Second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, and then with the US invasion of Iraq the direction of the protests started to change from anti-Israel and anti-USA to anti-Mubarak regime, which protesters now perceived as the main problem. In this context, the thesis deals with the events that intensified the revolution, with the aim of evaluating these events from the inside through interviews with youth members from the April 6 Youth Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, Independents, and Revolutionary Socialists

Subject Keywords

Arab Spring, 2010-, Arab Uprisings, Hosni Mubarak, 25 January 2011, Youth Movements, Protest Culture.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12624273/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44995

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

The Contribution of Foreign Intervention to Post-Arab Spring Conflicts in -Yemen and Libya- Ali , Afnan Imad Eldin Musa; Kahveci, Hayriye; Political Science and International Relations (2021-9) A decade ago, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region experienced a series of anti-government uprisings, referred to as “The Arab Spring”. The traditional corrupted regimes, the absence of political freedom and decline standard of living incited people to take their demands to the streets. People were asking for the fall of the authoritarian regimes, and the rise of democratic path for the transfer of power with a mutual slogan ―Alshaeb yurid iisqat alnizam/الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام ‖ (in English: the ...
Iranian foreign policy in the 2000s : a neo-realist perspective Gedikli, Gürsel Fırat; Tür Küçükkaya, Özlem; Department of Middle East Studies (2014) This thesis aims to analyze the foreign policy of Iran in a historical perspective in the 2000s. In this context, the details of the 9/11 attacks to the US, its foreign policy change as a response to the terrorist attacks and the region-wide uprisings called as Arab Spring were underlined and their effects towards the Iranian foreign policy were discussed. The thesis argues that Iranian foreign policy in the 2000s can best be explained via neo-realist theory by attaching highest importance on the country’s ...
Charismatic Leadership in Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser Altun, Tuğba; Altunışık, Meliha; Department of Middle East Studies (2022-12-28) During the years between 1952 and 1970, Egypt was almost the most influential country in the Arab world. Gamal Abdel Nasser’s powerful image in the eyes of the Egyptians and among the Arabs in general as the president of Egypt at that time was influential. Nasser strongly supported Arab nationalism and unity in the Arab world. Also, he was passionately against colonialism and the bipolar system in the world. Therefore, he created a powerful charismatic leadership with his ideas and policies among the Arabs....
Turkish-Saudi relations: from a regional perspective in the period from 2003 until 2013 Ellithy, Amr Mohamed Hassan; Altunışık, Meliha; Department of International Relations (2015) The thesis aims to understand how the relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia evolved in the 2000s, through applying the regional level of analysis. It looks at interaction between these two regional powers in the Middle East after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings in 2011 in a comparative way through examining the regional contexts created after these events and how the foreign policy of Turkey and Saudi Arabia reacted to these contexts. The thesis tries to figure out how the regiona...
The Arab spring and Turkish model / Kuşoğlu, Baran; Bağcı, Hüseyin; Department of International Relations (2014) This thesis analyses the question of Turkish model for the Arab Spring countries by focusing on four main dimensions which have special importance in this work: The Arab Spring with a theoretical and conceptual framework, the Arab Spring and its major causes, Turkey’s reform process under the Justice and Development Party’s rule, relevance and applicability of Turkish model for the Arab Spring countries. It seeks primarily to answer the question that whether or not Turkey is a model for the Arab Spring coun...

Citation Formats

G. Oğur, “Turbulent years in Egypt, 2000-2011: social protests and their effects on the uprising of january 25, 2011,” Thesis (M.S.) -- Graduate School of Social Sciences. Middle East Studies., Middle East Technical University, 2019.