AsianForum 141th "Egypt’s Democratic Revolution and People of the Nile: The Arab Spring in the Context of Islamic History"

141th
Asian Forum
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
14:00-15:00
Conference Room 203/204, Dialogue House 2F吉村武典 (Yoshimura Takenori)
Junior Researcher, Organization for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University

エジプト民主革命とナイルの民：イスラーム史から見るアラブの春
(Egypt’s Democratic Revolution and People of the Nile: The Arab Spring in the Context of Islamic History)チュニジアでの「ジャスミン革命」や、その後に連鎖的に中東の諸地域で発生したアラブ諸国の
民主化運動は「アラブの春」とも呼ばれました。その中で、2011年のエジプト民主革命(1月25日革命)は、
今年の6月30日にムスリム同胞団メンバーであったムハンマド・ムルシーが大統領に就任して新たな他局面を
迎えつつも、その行き先は不透明なままです。
日本から見れば地理的にも、心理的にも遠い中東で発生した一連の民主革命の動きをどう理解して
行けばいいのでしょうか。報告者が現地調査で訪れたエジプトでの記録を紹介するとともに、
イスラーム史における政治と権力、統治者と民衆と行った視点から、「アラブの春」を再考してみたいと
思います。

Following the December 2010 “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, a wave of protests and pro-democratic demonstrations shook the Middle East in what has come to be called the “Arab Spring.” Protests began in Egypt on January 25, 2011, resulting in a democratic revolution that overthrew the regime of Honsi Mubarak. On June 30, 2012, Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was officially sworn in as Egypt’s first civilian president. The situation within Egypt, however, remains tense and the success of the democratic revolution is by no means certain.

How have people in Japan understood the wave of democratic revolutions that took place in the Middle East, a region so geographically and psychologically distant? The speaker was conducting fieldwork in Egypt at the time of the revolution. From first-hand experience and from the viewpoint of interactions between rulers and the ruled in Islamic history, Professor Yoshimura will attempt to rethink the Arab Spring.)

Lecture in Japanese