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Sélégny, Thomas (2015)

Suez's Culture of Resistance, its causes and its future.

Master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

Suez is a seaport city which is one of the two gates of the Suez Canal. Most media talked about Tahrir Square in Cairo as the epicenter of the Arab Spring in Egypt. However the truth is that Suez was genuinely the center of the unprecendented uprising, as it was the first city to rise up against Hosni Mubarak. Likewise, Suez was also sadly known for being the city where the first protester was killed in Egypt during the January 2011 uprisings. Therein, Suez was renowned across Egypt for carrying ‘The Flame of Revolution‘. As such, some activists referred to Suez as the ‘Egyptian Sidi Bouzid’.

Culture

Resistance

Suez

Egypt

Canal

war

Israel

Nationalist

social

dictatorship

Author

Sélégny, Thomas

Note

The thesis aims to delve the concrete reasons that pushed Suez's inhabitants to rise up first against Mubarak's brutal dictatorship and what the expectations are as regards the New Suez Canal concerning the social matter. All through the thesis, it is expressed a clear theory whereby there was a reversal in the city from a nationalist culture of resistance to a social culture of resistance.

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Supervisors

Ennis, Crystal

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en