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The Egyptian Uprising And April 6th Youth Movement Split, Somaia Metwalli El Sayed
The Egyptian Uprising And April 6th Youth Movement Split, Somaia Metwalli El Sayed
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Few months after the Egyptian uprising, a considerable number of April 6th Youth movement announced their split. Knowing that the movement was already suffering from internal disputes over a number of issues, the research problem is centered on questioning whether and how the uprising played a role in such incident. Academic scholarship on social movements developed partial and action-oriented theories to explain different processes and dynamics of movement’s collective action. However, little work has been done on the trajectory of social movements in the Middle East, especially after radical forms of change as revolutions, uprisings or upheavals. It is argued …