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Let the Minutes Speak: Documenting the Golden Age of Oppositional Politics in 1970s Egypt

By Andreas Nabil Younan (any21@cam.ac.uk) How does one write the political history of an authoritarian regime, where access tostate documents is restricted for national security reasons and censorship has beenwidespread? Egypt has been under strict military rule since the republic’s founding in 1952,following a coup d’état by the “Free Officers” movement against the British-backedmonarchy. President…
