Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
This talk will address the dictatorship syndrome specifically through the lens of liberalism in Egypt. It will seek to address why a particular denomination of Egyptian liberalism, despite at face value being wholly opposed to dictatorship, ultimately proved susceptible to the allures of the dictatorship syndrome in the aftermath of the events of 2013 in Egypt.
Dr. Dalia Fahmy Bio:
Dr. Dalia Fahmy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Policy in Washington DC. Dr. Fahmy’s books: “The Rise and Fall of The Muslim Brotherhood and the Future of Political Islam” (undercontract), and co-edited volumes “Arab Spring: Modernity, Identity and Change,” “Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy,” and “International Relations in a Changing World”, cover her research areas.
Daanish Faruqi Bio:
Daanish Faruqi is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) at Rutgers University, and a doctoral candidate (ABD) in History at Duke University. A scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, with a particular emphasis on Islamic political thought, he had previously spent several years in the Arab Middle East as a researcher and journalist, which gave rise to two books, most recently Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (co-edited with Dalia F. Fahmy). His work straddles between classical and contemporary Islamic thought, with a particular emphasis on the Maghrib region on the one hand and on the Levant on the other hand. Most recently his work investigates transnational politically activist strands of Sufi mysticism, tracing their diasporic origins in the colonial Maghrib to their ultimate migration to late-Ottoman Syria, to their most recent role in the 2011 Syrian revolution.
A recognized subject matter expert, Faruqi has given talks and symposia on his research at the UCLA Law School, Georgetown University, the National Press Club, and other institutions. Additionally, he is a frequent journalist and commentator on the politics of the Middle East, having published in Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy, CommonDreams.org, USC-Annenberg/Religion Dispatches, among other media outlets.
REGISTER: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7116019741644/WN_RpYEjEK9QmucBLxrpx9Tsg
Date:
30 October 2020, 17:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue:
ZOOM
Speakers:
Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)),
Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
Organising department:
St Antony's College
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Organiser contact email address:
mec@sant.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Usaama Al-Azami ((Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford))
Part of:
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7116019741644/WN_RpYEjEK9QmucBLxrpx9Tsg
Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Stacey Churcher
