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2 - Overcoming Induced Insecurities: Stabilising Arab Democracies after the Spring
from Part I - Conceptual and Cross-Country Perspectives
- By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Edited by Ibrahim Elbadawi, Samir Makdisi, American University of Beirut
Book:

Democratic Transitions in the Arab World

Published online:

19 January 2017

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24 December 2016, pp 75-104
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Studying My Movement: Social Science Without Cynicism
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Journal:

International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 23 / Issue 1 / February 1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

29 January 2009, pp. 83-94

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February 1991
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While I was working on my Ph.D. thesis on Ikhwan in the Sudan,1 a Sudanese colleague of mine working in a related area used to joke that we have all become “Orientalists.” There was a certain sense of irony—and truth—in this “accusation.” Our endeavor was either the negation and supersession of Orientalism, or its final triumph. For here we are, fiery Islamic militants, squatting meekly and dutifully at the feet of our Orientalist sheikhs, hoping to drink at their hands the cup of knowledge on which we had simultaneously turned our backs. Is this conceding defeat or starting an invasion?

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