Contested Legitimacies

Drawing from a unique archive of sources, this book investigates the rise and fall of different coalitions of contenders, from the Tamarod uprising against Mursi, to the Anti-Coup resistance against the military coup, to the challenges posed by the Tiran and Sanafir island campaign to Al-Sisi's regime.

Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm heads the research group Radical Spaces at the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. For his research on protest-repression dynamics in Egypt, which is at the heart of this book, he received the German Middle East Studies Association's dissertation award in 2020 and the German Political Science Association's research award in 2021.

Acknowledgments, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Conceptual Choices and Theoretical Framework, 3 Brothers and Rebels, 4 Coup and Anti-Coup, 5 Myths and Martyrs, 6 New Sheriff in Town, 7 A Tale of Two Islands, 8 Conclusion and Implications, Appendix: A Mixed-Method Approach to the Study of Contentious Interaction, Bibliography, Index