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The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police (2023)
Book Chapter
Ismail, S. (2023). The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police. In B. Ayata, & C. Harders (Eds.), The Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests Midān Moments and Political Transformation in Egypt and Turkey (121-141). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273882-10

This chapter advances the argument that the people’s rising during the 2011 Egyptian revolutionary uprising was directed at the police as an apparatus of government. In developing this argument, the chapter draws attention to the terms in which the a... Read More about The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police.

Urban Spatial Politics and Collective Action in Revolutionary Cairo: Counter Spaces and Paradoxes of Mobilisation (2022)
Journal Article
Ismail, S. (2022). Urban Spatial Politics and Collective Action in Revolutionary Cairo: Counter Spaces and Paradoxes of Mobilisation. Political Geography, 98, Article 102716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102716

This article centres the role of Cairo's popular forces in the 2011 revolutionary Uprising in Egypt. It does so by bringing to focus the relationship between these forces' everyday spatial practices and forms of contention, on one hand, and revolutio... Read More about Urban Spatial Politics and Collective Action in Revolutionary Cairo: Counter Spaces and Paradoxes of Mobilisation.

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (2018)
Book
Ismail, S. (2018). The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139424721

Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing throug... Read More about The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria.

Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Ismail, S. (2013). Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55(4), 865-894. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417513000443

This paper investigates the role of urban subalterns both as participatory agents in the Arab revolutions and as mediating forces against revolutionary action. It argues that during revolutionary periods the positioning of subalterns as a political f... Read More about Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective.