Majlis@Waseda: ” Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt”
We are pleased to announce that The Chair of the State of Qatar in Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University will be organizing the Majlis@Waseda on 8th Nov 2024. We would like to provide you with some details of the event:
“Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt”
Dr. Ahmed Abozaid
University of Cambridge
Friday, November 8, 17:30-19:00
Waseda University Building 3, Room 405
This Majlis will explore key themes from a pioneering book that rethinks the Arab Uprisings through non-Western perspectives, offering a decolonial critique of International Relations (IR) and Middle Eastern Studies. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, ethnography, and 250 interviews with marginalized communities across the Arab world, the book investigates how a globally celebrated revolution has evolved into a largely undesirable outcome.
The session will cover two main points: First, it critiques mainstream Western IR theories that have shaped the discourse on the uprisings, exposing their disconnection from local realities and biases against non-Western forms of knowledge. Second, it examines the failure of Egypt’s revolution through ethnographic research, analyzing the causes at individual, state, and system levels. The discussion will reveal how counterrevolutions have fortified and why revolutions may once again resurge in the region, offering new perspectives on political change in the Arab world.
Please pre-register if you wish to attend at: https://forms.gle/NHwJJZMmwjNemrTX7
