| Title | : | Democracy is the Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Alaa Al Aswany, Russell Harris, Aran Byrne, Paul Naylor & Sarah Cleave |
| Release | : | 2015-02-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events, Travel & Adventure, Travel in Africa, Travel in the Middle East |
| Size | : | 2582106 |
| 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 Alaa 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, and a portrait of a country and a people in flux. Each column is presented along with a context-setting introduction, as well as notes and a glossary, all designed to give non-Egyptian readers the background they need to understand the events and figures that Al-Aswany chronicles. The result is a definitive portrait of Egypt today—how it got here, and where it might be headed. |
