{"product_id":"generation-revolution-isbn-9781590519820","title":"Generation Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eAn excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneration Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Egypt’s 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn January 2011, the young people’s 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Following the stories of four young Egyptians—Amr 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 martyr—\u003ci\u003eGeneration Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the failures of the Arab Spring and shines new light on those left in the wake of its lost promise.\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Aspden’s reporting is always fascinating…an excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulty of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eGeneration Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers sharp insight into how the youth movement came together and why it fell apart…fascinating.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Having lived on and off in Cairo for more than a decade, Aspden has a clear eye for its marvelous and maddening details…her stories are always compelling…\u003ci\u003eGeneration Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome prism, separating the spectrum of political Islam through the coming of age of its characters.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Weaving in dramatic moments of Egypt’s recent past with vivid depictions of its contemporary culture, Aspden uses her subjects’ candid narratives to reveal how the pressures of a corrupt state, a stagnating economy, a restless and disenfranchised youth, the repression of women, and the infiltration of Western innovations such as the Internet led Egyptians to erupt into revolt…a sobering but necessary education in ‘the intractable suffering in the region’ that Western countries can no longer afford to ignore.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] fascinating study…a deep dive into one of the revolution’s most critical faultlines: the ongoing struggle waged by Egypt’s youth to articulate their own voices…What makes \u003ci\u003eGeneration Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e so interesting is its weaving together of national political unrest with the micro-level dramas of daily life.” —\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An earnest eyewitness account of a nation in tumult.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Aspden \u003c\/b\u003eis a former literary editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and now works at \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. 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