"After the ousting of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, there was much debate about the reasons for the former regime's longevity and its collapse. Here, Safinaz El Tarouty provides an original contribution to the study of authoritarianism in Egypt by focusing on the role...

Introduction : bread, dignity, social justice and economic reforms -- A Gramscian approach to the study of the political economy of reforms -- The Egyptian way to neoliberalism? : IMF, World Bank and reforms in Egypt -- Of success and greed : the new business class turns into capitalist...