Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East

Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East by Rachel Aspden


ISBN
9781910701850
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

What happens when a revolution unravels? How do you choose between sex and tradition, consumerism and faith? Where will the next generation take the Middle East? In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. The two-thirds of Egypt's 80 million citizens under 30 were stifled, broke and frustrated, caught between a dictatorship that had nothing to offer them and their autocratic parents' generation, left clinging to tradition and obedience by 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 the united front against Mubarak shattered into sectarianism, many found themselves wavering, hesitant to discard the old ways entirely. 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 Generation Revolution unravels the complex forces shaping the live
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