Copts at the crossroads : the challenges of building inclusive democracy in contemporary Egypt
Record details
- ISBN: 9789774165917
- ISBN: 9774165918
- ISBN: 1617975478
- ISBN: 9781617975479
- ISBN: 161797496X
- ISBN: 9781617974960
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
remote - Edition: [US and Canada version].
- Publisher: Cairo, Egypt ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : A future of crescent without cross? -- The Copts of Egypt -- Overview of sectarian incidents (2008-2011) -- The patriarch-president pact and the people in between -- The politics of backroom vendettas : The state security investigations apparatus versus the Coptic church leadership -- Mitigation, management, and resolution of sectarianism under Mubarak -- Against all odds : The Copts in the 25th January revolution -- The beginning of the end of the Tahrir spirit -- Coptic protest and Copts in protest -- Egypt's bloody Sunday and its ripple effects -- The Copts' Islamist experience -- Winning for God : Sectarianism in the parliamentary and presidential elections -- Conclusion : Walking next to the wall, inside the wall, and away from the wall. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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