https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Of-Cities-and-their-Mores https://booksandideas.net/Of-Cities-and-their-Mores 2018-11-12T08:00:00Z text/html en Denis Bocquet Egypt Society Germany city Florence Gould Foundation urbanization morality <p>What do late nineteenth-century Berlin and Cairo have in common? The German historian Joseph Ben Prestel accepts the challenge of comparing these two cities in order to interrogate the boundaries between Europe and the Middle East, as well as orientalism's assumptions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Egyptian-Journalists-and-Power https://booksandideas.net/Egyptian-Journalists-and-Power 2012-01-12T08:40:00Z text/html en Enrique Klaus Egypt Politics nationalism freedom of speech press Services culturels de l'ambassade de France aux États-Unis <p>Any analysis of the role of the press in the democratisation of Egypt must take into account the long history between journalists and those in power since the 1952 revolution. The Egyptian press, which has been controlled, marginalised, silenced and fragmented, was late to join the revolution. It has not been easy for them to find a voice under the new regime.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Autumn-of-the-Patriarchs https://booksandideas.net/The-Autumn-of-the-Patriarchs 2011-05-18T08:32:32Z text/html en Abdellah Tourabi Egypt International Carousel revolution corruption <p>Two revolutions and two presidents deposed within a few weeks. Long presented as a region resistant to democratization and change, the Arab world has been shaken by the winds of rebellion, which could put an end to the myth of an Arab “authoritarian exception.”</p>