Professor Bob Bowker, Former Australian Ambassador on Egypt and the Arab Middle East

Bob Bowker was invited to Perth by the AIIA and the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at UWA and gave extremely timely  and well attended talks at UWA and the WA Club on the evolving situation in Egypt and the effect on other states in the Middle East.

His recently published book may be of interest to members.

‘The situation unfolding in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Middle East has important implications for the future of the Arab political order. For the first time, a secular but inclusive political alternative to Islamism has emerged. It has captured the political imagination of the emerging Arab middle class. It will shape the regional security environment. Its consequences are unpredictable – but the greatest risk to the region is the marginalization and alienation of a movement that has raised and galvanized its political horizons.’
– Robert Bowker

In his book Egypt and the Politics of Change in the Arab Middle East, Professor Robert Bowker argues that if regimes fail to address effectively the demands for empowerment of its educated youth, they face the prospect of a tsunami-like current of instability and regression.

The  book