Vertical vs. Horizontal: Egypt's State-Religion Discourse Before and After the Arab Spring

L. Lavie

Vertical vs. Horizontal: Egypt's State-Religion Discourse Before and After the Arab Spring

L. Lavie

Department of Arabic

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

The state-religion relations discourse in Egyptian Society during the Arab Spring sheds light on the discourse during Mubarak's reign and enables us to reexamine it. Borrowing from the theory of the great sociologist Basil Bernstein, I argue that the state-religion discourse after the 2011 upheaval was a horizontal one i.e. wide, segmentally organized and multi-layered with multiple participants and approaches, unconstrained, and free of censorship. In fact, the very opposite of the discourse in the last decade of Mubarak's rule, which was vertical - narrow, limited, and dictated by the ruler. Accordingly, I will demonstrate that Mubarak nationalized the discourse and emptied it by forcing a uniformed model of a civil state.

Original language	English
State	Published - 2018
Event	International Workshop "From Thawrat 1919 to the Arab Spring: A Century of Egyptian History Reconsidered - Egypt Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel Duration: 2 Jan 2018 → 4 Jan 2018

Conference

Conference	International Workshop "From Thawrat 1919 to the Arab Spring: A Century of Egyptian History Reconsidered
Country/Territory	Israel
City	Tel Aviv
Period	2/01/18 → 4/01/18

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