Egypt’s Uprising and the Politics of Narratives How are contemporary Egyptian political struggles and conflicts shaping the evolution of emergent accounts of the January 25 Revolution? While many research efforts focused on developing an understanding of the origins of what is often referred to as the “Arab Uprisings” and the determinants of their success in overthrowing longstanding incumbent autocrats, little attention has been paid to how ongoing political and social struggles have affected dominant accounts of the uprisings. Based on an extensive case-study and review of emergent accounts of the Egypt’s January 25 Revolution in both Arabic and English, this paper argues that such efforts ignore the extent to which the outcomes of the Arab Uprisings remain tentative, open-ended, and are still being fought on the ground. Using an analysis of important books and primary documents detailing the history of the Egyptian uprising and its outcome, the paper sheds light on how various pending political struggles have helped shape critical aspects of our understanding of the January 25 Revolution, in particular, social class composition; the role of the military in ousting former President Hosni Mubarak; the role of the United States government in supporting the 2011 eighteen-day uprising and pressuring Mubarak to leave office; the role played by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist activists in the uprising, and the role of social networking sites in initiating and sustaining anti-Mubarak protests during the uprising. The paper reveals that popular narratives of the revolution have come to reflect and embody critical social conflicts in Egypt. By bringing to light and analyzing sources of bias in conventional understandings of the Egyptian uprising, the paper underscores some critical challenges facing efforts to theorize the origins and determinants of the Arab uprisings. It also shows the difficulty to adjudicate between competing claims about the conditions that forced Hosni Mubarak’s ouster and initiated a more decentralized process of political competition and change.