Introduction: Bread, Dignity, Social Justice and Economic Reforms

Abstract

After surveying the literature on the causes of the Egyptian revolution, the introduction outlines the main argument of this book, suggesting that economic reforms implemented since the late 1980s created an ever greater polarisation within the regime and in society at large. In so doing, these reforms created some of the socio-economic preconditions for the popular uprisings leading to the fall of Mubarak.