Preface -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 The Downfall of Mubarak and the New Actors Reshaping Egypt -- Socioeconomic Grievances -- Social Movements -- The Egyptian Movement for Change-Kefaya ('Enough') -- The April 6 Youth Movement -- We Are All Khaled Said -- Mubarak's Deliberalization Policies -- Political Mobilization -- Gamal Mubarak and Hereditary Succession -- The November 28, 2010 Legislative Elections -- Social Media -- Facilitating Factors -- The Tunisian Revolution -- Alexandria Church Bombing -- The Return of Mohamed El-Baradei -- Mubarak Last Eighteen Days -- The Muslim Brotherhood and the 2011 Revolution. Key Actors of Egypt's New Political EquationWhy Mubarak Fell? -- Part I Key Actors in Egypt's Political System -- Chapter 2 Egypt Civil-Military Relations 1952-2011 -- Introduction -- Civil-Military Relations: Theoretical Framework -- A Literature Review -- CMR in Egypt and the Middle East -- Nasser's Civil-Military Relations -- Sadat's Civil-Military Relations -- Mubarak's Civil-Military Relations -- Purging the Armed Forces of Extremist Elements -- Parallel Paramilitary Forces -- Mubarak's "Loyalty Allowance" -- The Parallel -- Military Ambiguity Toward the 2011 Uprising -- Conclusion. Chapter 3 The Muslim Brotherhood's Ideological and Organizational DevelopmentIntroduction -- The MB's Controversial Establishment -- Al-Banna: The Godfather of the, and -- Sayyid Qutb: The MB's Second Prophet -- Combating the Qutbist Faction -- The Homogeny of Qutbism and Salafism -- Generational Divides Within the MB -- MB Organizational Structure -- MB Rhetoric and Practice -- and Violence -- The MB and -- MB and Neoliberal Policies -- The Establishment of the FJP -- The FJP Platform -- The MB Offshoots -- The Egyptian Renaissance Party (Hezb Al-Nahda) -- The Leadership Party (Hezb Al-Riyada). The Peace and Development PartyThe Egyptian Current Party (Hezb Al-Tayar al-Masri) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Salafist Schools, Groups, and Movements -- Salafism: Three Pillars of Wisdom -- Egyptian Salafism -- Contradictory : Reformist and Wahhabi -- The Current Factions of Egyptian Salafism -- Traditional Salafism -- Al-Jam'iyya al-Shar'iyya Li-L-'amilin Bi-L-Kitabwa-L-Sunna (the Lawful Association of the Adherents of the Book and the Sunna) -- Jama'at Ansar Al-Sunna Al-Mohamadiyya (the Society of the Supporters of the Mohamadan Sunna (1926) -- Al-Madkhaliyya Salafism or Loyalist Salafism -- The Salafist Call. Controversial EstablishmentSalafist Call: Ideology and Discourse -- and -- Al-Salafiyya Harakiya (Activist Salafism) or Militant Salafism -- The Militant Salafism or Hazemoun Salafism -- Anchor 16 -- Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Group) Controversial Establishment and Expansion -- Ideological and Organizational Development -- The Islamic Group and the Near Enemy -- The -- - -- A Controversial Establishment -- EIJ Ideological and Organizational Development -- Al-Jihad and the Near Enemy -- Al-Jihad's -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Salafist Parties -- Salafists and the 2011 Revolution.