Adel Abdel Ghafar is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East & Central Asia) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. His dissertation is titled A Political Economy of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and his research involves investigating the social, economic and political roots of the revolution of …
Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries ‘January 25th: The Day the Barrier of Fear Broke Down’ in Prof. Asaad Al Saleh, (Ed.) From the Masses of the Arab Spring:Personal Stories of the Arab Revolutions (forthcoming from Columbia University Press, 2012). ‘Social Movements’ in Prof. Emad Shahin, (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, (Forthcoming by Oxford University …