1. Introduction 2. The Arab Spring in North Africa: origins and prospects 3. Brothers-in-arms? The Egyptian military, the Ikhwan and the revolutions of 1952 and 2011 4. Party proliferation and electoral transition in post-Mubarak Egypt 5. From spectacle to spectacular: How physical space, social media and mainstream broadcast amplified the public sphere in Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ 6. Libya’s Revolution 7. A revolution for dignity and freedom: preliminary observations on the social and cultural background to the Tunisian revolution 8. Challenges to legitimate governance in post-revolution Tunisia 9. Algeria: democracy denied, and revived? 10. Constitutional reforms in Morocco: between consensus and subaltern politics 11. Conclusion
Biography
George Joffé lectures at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and is Visiting Professor of Geography at Kings College, London University. He specialises in the Middle East and North Africa and is currently engaged in a project studying migrant communities in Europe.
