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The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes

 A conference at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Co-sponsored by the John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford

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Scope and Aims

The popular uprising of 25 January 2011 launched a revolution in Egypt that captured observers’ imagination worldwide, and whose reverberations continue to be felt throughout the Middle East, as well as in the world’s major capitals. The year 2012 is seeing scholarly communities worldwide mark the first anniversary of this extraordinary development. This Conference aims for Oxford University to be the meeting point, at the juncture of one year on, for a consideration of the causes, characteristics, and fortunes of the January Revolution.

Amidst the wave of scholarly interest in the Arab uprisings as a whole, this conference offers a welcome focus on one country case, allowing an in-depth consideration of relevant themes in Egyptian history and politics, society and economy, while also accounting for international linkages. The Conference also stands out for its explicit aim to bring together scholars based inside and outside the Arab world, and encouraging the participation of scholars on the ground in Egypt. Finally, the Conference has been timed to allow consideration of the events of the first anniversary of the uprising in January and February 2012.

The Conference also aims to form the basis for a scholarly network, which will engage in continued collaboration on themes and ideas emerging from the Conference. The 2012 Conference will gather scholars in the collective goal of writing a ‘first anniversary history’ of the Revolution, emphasising the value, as well as the limits, of conducting such an exercise at precisely such an early stage. It is hoped that further anniversaries will be marked by similar gatherings through the emerging network.

Convenor: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

The conference convener is most grateful to the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and the John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford, for sponsoring this event.