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Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution
Alaa Al Aswany
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Description for Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution
Hardcover. Presents the authors columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, and a portrait of a country and a people in flux. This book features columns, that are presented along with an introduction, notes and a glossary, all designed to give non-Egyptian readers the background they need to understand. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTV; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 46. Weight in Grams: 826.
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it - and try to push it in productive directions - than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alba Al Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolution's ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath. This book presents, for the first time in English, all of Al Aswany's columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, ... Read more
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it - and try to push it in productive directions - than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alba Al Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolution's ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath. This book presents, for the first time in English, all of Al Aswany's columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gingko Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
700
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909942714
SKU
V9781909942714
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About Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany is the author of The Yacoubian Building and many other novels. Sarah Cleave is an editor at Gingko Library. Aran Byrne is the editor of East-West Divan, also published by the Gingko Library. Russell Harris is a curator, author, and translator. He works as an academic consultant at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and is ... Read more
Reviews for Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution
Al Aswany [is the] greatest living Egyptian novelist and the finest weather vane of the country s contemporary up-again, down-again revolutionary history.
Robert Fisk"
Robert Fisk"