Counterrevolution in Egypt
Summary
Journalist and scholar Hossam Hamdeh discusses his book, *Counter Revolution in Egypt*, arguing that Sisi’s regime is a distinct "Second Republic" rather than a Mubarak restoration. He explains how the 2011 uprising shifted the state’s primary threat from military coups to popular revolution, leading to the unprecedented unification of Egypt’s fragmented security apparatus. Hamdeh details his research methods, including using US FOIA requests and obituaries to map the military’s structure, and analyzes the regime’s extreme crowd-phobia and economic collapse. He concludes that while the stat…
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