Profs. Emon and Macklin interview SJD student Ahmed Saleh about Facebook and the Egyptian revolution

In the Boston Review, Profs. Anver Emon and Audrey Macklin, with co-editor Ellen Lust, interview SJD student Ahmed Saleh and his colleague Nadine Wahab, administrators of the “We are all Khaled Said” Facebook campaign, about the role and limitations of Facebook in the Egyptian revolution ("We Are All Khaled Said," Nov. 3, 2011).

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The interview is adapted from the latest issue of the journal Middle East Law and Governance, of which Profs. Emon, Macklin and Lust are co-editors. The issue ("The Year of the Revolutions," Volume 3:1–2) is focused on the Arab revolutions of the past year and includes an article by Prof. Mohammad Fadel on "Modernist Islamic Political Thought and the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions of 2011."

• See the full MELG issue