"The Egyptian Revolution: Comprehending the Present and an Attempt to Read the Future" Academic Seminar
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The BA Futuristic Studies Unit holds an Academic Seminar entitled “The Egyptian Revolution: Comprehending the Present and an Attempt to Read the Future" on 13 and 14 July 2011 in Beit El-Sennary, Cairo.
The Academic Seminar hosts Professor Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies University of Illinois, and Dr. Linda Herrera, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, as the main speakers, in addition to a selected group of young Egyptian Researchers.
The Seminar comes within a series of events that attempts to comprehend the revolutionary scene and read its consequences. The first day focuses on the theoretical and conceptual dimensions of redefining the Revolution, and transcends the secular-versus-Islamic dichotomy by the concept of “Post Islamism”. On the second day, participants seek to read the future that is currently being reshaped.
It is worth mentioning that Bayat’s notions of “social non-movements”, “post Islamism” and “post ideology” succeeded in explaining the social interaction in Egypt away from the mainstream academic Western frameworks which failed to predict, explain or analyze the Egyptian case study.