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Generation Revolution: How the Arab Spring Has Changed the Lives of Ordinary People in Egypt
Rachel Aspden
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Description for Generation Revolution: How the Arab Spring Has Changed the Lives of Ordinary People in Egypt
Paperback. In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 364.
In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. Of Egypt's 80 million citizens, two-thirds were under 30. The new generation were stifled, broken and frustrated - caught between a dictatorship with nothing to offer them and autocratic parents still clinging to tradition and obedience after a lifetime of fear. In January 2011, the young people's patience ran out. They thought the revolution that followed would change everything for them. But as violence escalated, the economy collapsed and as the united front against Mubarak shattered ... Read more
In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. Of Egypt's 80 million citizens, two-thirds were under 30. The new generation were stifled, broken and frustrated - caught between a dictatorship with nothing to offer them and autocratic parents still clinging to tradition and obedience after a lifetime of fear. In January 2011, the young people's patience ran out. They thought the revolution that followed would change everything for them. But as violence escalated, the economy collapsed and as the united front against Mubarak shattered ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846557637
SKU
V9781846557637
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99-48
About Rachel Aspden
Rachel Aspden was born in London in 1980. She moved to Cairo to study Arabic and work as a trainee journalist in 2003 and spent the next several years travelling and writing about Islam and politics in Yemen, Pakistan and across the Middle East. After a period as the literary editor of the New Statesman, in 2010 she was awarded ... Read more
Reviews for Generation Revolution: How the Arab Spring Has Changed the Lives of Ordinary People in Egypt
Fascinating study... A deep dive into one of the revolution's most critical faultlines.
Jack Shenker
Evening Standard
The Arab spring has yielded a bumper crop of books about youth across the region and Generation Revolution is among its more fruitful reads... Always compelling... Particularly interesting for its nuanced portraits of young Egyptian Men.
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Jack Shenker
Evening Standard
The Arab spring has yielded a bumper crop of books about youth across the region and Generation Revolution is among its more fruitful reads... Always compelling... Particularly interesting for its nuanced portraits of young Egyptian Men.
... Read more