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Egypt: Nonviolent Resistance in the Rise of a Nation-State, 1805-1922 (Chapter 7 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)

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Egypt: Nonviolent Resistance in the Rise of a Nation-State, 1805-1922 (Chapter 7 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)

In this chapter, we identify and examine important episodes of Egyptians’ nonviolent resistance against foreign domination in the nineteenth century, including the 1805 revolution, the 1881 Orabi movement, nonviolent organizing against the British occupation after 1882, and the 1919 revolution that led to Egypt’s formal independence in 1922 […]

Authors: Amr Abdalla and Yasmine Arafa
Editor: Maciej Bartkowski

From the book ‘Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles‘, 2013

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  • Egypt: Nonviolent Resistance in the Rise of a Nation-State, 1805-1922 (Chapter 7 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)
  • Egypt: Nonviolent Resistance in the Rise of a Nation-State, 1805-1922 (Chapter 7 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)

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