An Analysis of Forms of Resistance in the Process of Arab Revolutions: A Case Study on Egypt

The logic of political life in the Middle Eastern nations is passing through the old social order as these societies set out to change the foundations of their truth. In the meantime, we see the asymmetrical and nonconventional confrontation between the power community and resistance community. As a result of such confrontations and the occurrence of sociopolitical changes in recent Middle East revolutions, emphasis on such classic terms as revolution, ideology and leadership might not help understand the realities. For this reason, this article adopts different terms including resistance and forms of resistance to explain and interpret those revolutions. In this regard, four forms of resistance known as Islamic, democratic, Marxian and postmodern (popular) resistance are distinguished. Then dialectical clash between the idea and phenomenological reality is used to understand the semiotic and linguistic constructs of the forms of resistance. At last the Arab revolutions will be analyzed within the theoretical basis of these forms of resistance.