From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy

244 Pages·2015·2.04 MB·English

by  Filiu

FROM DEEP STATE TO ISLAMIC STATE
THE CERI SERIES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Series editor, Christophe Jaffrelot
This series consists of translations of noteworthy manuscripts and publications in
the social sciences emanating from the foremost French researchers at Sciences
Po, Paris.
The focus of the series is the transformation of politics and society by
transnational and domestic factors—globalisation, migration and religion. States
are more permeable to external influence than ever before and this phenomenon
is accelerating processes of social and political change the world over. In
seeking to understand and interpret these transformations, this series gives
priority to social trends from below as much as to the interventions of state and
non-state actors.
JEAN-PIERRE FILIU
From Deep State to Islamic State
The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi
Legacy
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‘The notion of inviting the army into the country’s political life again is extremely dangerous; it could turn
Egypt into another Afghanistan or Somalia.’
General Abdelfattah Sisi, Minister of Defence, 15 May 2013, less than two months before his coup against
the elected president
‘If you are a patriot, you need to shut up and let us do our job, and clean up the mess you made with your
revolution.’
Threats from the Egyptian security services reported in January 2014 by former MP Mostafa Al-Nagar*
* Mostafa al-Nagar, born in 1980, is one of the few activists of the Egyptian 25 January 2011 revolution to
have successfully joined the political scene. After an early involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood’s
youth wing—which he left in 2005—he became a vocal defender of human rights and Palestinian causes.
(A dentist by profession, he volunteered in Gaza to help the victims of the Israeli offensive of January
2009.) He was jailed four times under Mubarak’s regime. In June 2011 he became one of the co-founders
of the Adl (Justice) party, and then its only member in the parliament that was elected in November–
December 2011, but dissolved by the Supreme Constitutional Court in June 2012.
CONTENTS
Foreword
1. Meet the Deep State
2. The Mythical Fathers of the Nation
3. The Modern Mamluks
4. The Algerian Matrix
5. The Rise of the Security Mafias
6. The ‘Global Terror’ Next Door
7. The Story of Two Squares in Egypt
8. Evil Twins in Yemen and Syria
9. Strangling Palestine
10. The Tunisian Alternative
Conclusion
Notes
Select English Bibliography
Chronology
Index