Egyptians' Translating Democracy: A Model in the Making

Riham Debian

ISBN 10: 333085040X / ISBN 13: 9783330850408

Published by Noor Publishing, 2017

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book tackles the question of Egyptians' (still in the making) translational model of democratic development and transition. This model challenges the notion of 'Arab exceptionalism' with its normative narratives of legitimacy and changing compatibility claims. The latter are structured in tune with America's conception of democracy, which according to Ido Oren 'are products, more than determinants of America's. foreign political relations' (Oren 147). More specifically, this model exposes the bias and theoretical lacuna in constitutional and political science theories, whose usage of ahistorical and decontextualized paradigm of civil-military relations demonizes the role of military in democratic transition and development, and disregards the specific history of Egyptian military and its role in state-building and preservation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Egyptians' Translating Democracy: A Model in the Making
• Publisher: Noor Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 333085040X
• ISBN 13: 9783330850408
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 5D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 125 grams

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Synopsis

This book tackles the question of Egyptians’ (still in the making) translational model of democratic development and transition. This model challenges the notion of ‘Arab exceptionalism’ with its normative narratives of legitimacy and changing compatibility claims. The latter are structured in tune with America’s conception of democracy, which according to Ido Oren “are products, more than determinants of America’s… foreign political relations” (Oren 147). More specifically, this model exposes the bias and theoretical lacuna in constitutional and political science theories, whose usage of ahistorical and decontextualized paradigm of civil-military relations demonizes the role of military in democratic transition and development, and disregards the specific history of Egyptian military and its role in state-building and preservation.

About the Author

Riham Debian workd as an assstant professor at the Instiute of Applied Linguistics and Trnslation, Alexandria University, Egypt. Her research interest sapns the fields of cultural, translation and gender studies. She is currently working on the gender politics of translation.