A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An excellent social history of Egypts persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes. New York Times Book Review Generation Revolution unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East. In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a twenty-three-year-old journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. The two-thirds of Egypts eighty million citizens under the age of thirty were stifled, broken, and frustrated, caught between a dictatorship that had nothing to offer them and their autocratic parents generation, defined by tradition and obedience. In January 2011, the young peoples patience ran out. They thought the revolution that followed would change everything. But as violence escalated, the economy collapsed, and as the united front against Mubarak shattered into sectarianism, many found themselves at a loss. Following the stories of four young EgyptiansAmr the atheist software engineer, Amal the village girl who defied her family and her entire community, Ayman the one-time religious extremist, and Ruqayah the would-be teenage martyrGeneration Revolution exposes the failures of the Arab Spring and shines new light on those left in the wake of its lost promise.
- | Author: Rachel Aspden
- | Publisher: Other Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Political Science
- | ISBN-10: 1590519825
- | ISBN-13: 9781590519820