Generation Revolution
On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
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In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. The two-thirds of Egypt's 80 million citizens under the age of 30 were stifled, broken, and frustrated, caught between a dictatorship that had nothing to offer them and their autocratic parents' generation, and left clinging to tradition and obedience by a lifetime of fear. In January 2011, the young people's patience ran out. Following the stories of four young Egyptians, this book examines the complex forces shaping the lives of young people caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the...
In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. The two-thirds of Egypt's 80 million citizens under the age of 30 were stifled, broken, and frustrated, caught between a dictatorship that had nothing to offer them and their autocratic parents' generation, and left clinging to tradition and obedience by a lifetime of fear. In January 2011, the young people's patience ran out. Following the stories of four young Egyptians, this book examines the complex forces shaping the lives of young people caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East.
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