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Cihan Tugal

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Egypt's Emergent Passive Revolution

Jun 20 2012
[Mohammed Morsi speaks during a press conference after his apparent victory in the Egyptian presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Cairo, June 18, 2012. Image by Ahmed Gomaa/AP Photo.]

One and a half years after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian revolutionaries returned to the streets in the first half of June 2012. The huge crowds that filled public squares throughout Egypt defy those accounts that reduce the revolutionary uprising to a naïve effort that is inadvertently paving the way for the usurpation of power by “Islamic autocrats.” While the polarization of Egypt’s political community across Islamist-secularist divide is evident, ...

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Egypt's Path Could be Distinct from Turkey's and Iran's

Feb 21 2011
[Image of book covers--in English and Turkish--by Jadaliyya]

It is striking that as Egypt turns a new page in history, voices as diverse as Financial Times, Le Monde and the New York Times want it to follow the Turkish model. But is the process in Turkey really repeatable? And who would stand to gain if it were taken as a model? It seems that liberals in the West and elsewhere want to use the Turkish model as an example because it shows the possibility of Islamist empowerment without Islamist dictatorship. The “Turkish model” emerged ...

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Bio

Cihan Tugal

 

Cihan Tugal works on the role of religion in political projects. His research so far has focused on how the interaction between religion and politics shapes everyday life, urban space, class relations, and national identity. His book Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism was published in 2009 by Stanford University Press. His research was also published in Economy and Society, Theory and Society, Sociological Theory, The New Left Review, The Sociological Quarterly, and edited volumes. Born and raised in Turkey, Tugal is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. 

“So on the anniversary of Said’s death, consider this a call to reinvigorate the Saidian virtues: solidarity and criticism, patient analysis and impatience with stupidity, public intellectual engagement and intemperate outbursts. We need them all.”
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