Reform and Frustration in Egypt

Egyptians threw off the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, but now find themselves under essentially the same military tutelage that they had hoped to escape.

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.

In 2011–13, the undemocratic political outlook of both secular and Islamist actors helped to ensure the failure of democracy in Egypt. Today, the populace appears to have backed away from…