Mubarak’s 25th January 2011 Speeches and Selected Literary Texts: a Reading into the Revolutionary Dialogics

Abstract

January 2011 witnessed an unprecedented critical moment in the Egyptian history. Protests were mobilized in millions in all corners of the country. People did not fear death and stood still calling out “People want the regime to fall” for eighteen successive days. What have changed the Egyptians? What power of determination were they endowed with to endure for their cause? Why could not they fear the power of the regime anymore? How did the regime conceive of these determinate souls and how did it respond to their roaring requests? Most of these previously raised questions could have been preceded by the statement ‘for the first time’. For all these ‘first times’ this study is in your hands now. It attempts to bring out these engaged voices that Mubarak was seriously trying to address in his three speeches. How did these voices establish a relation with the speeches as texts as well as with Mubarak himself? How did these voices exercise power over the spoken speeches and over Mubarak himself? And how did these influential voices made textual interpretations of Mubarak's three speeches and vice-verse how Mubarak himself represented these roaring voices in his speeches?

The primary sources used for analysis are: Mubarak's three