Generation Revolution - Aspden, Rachel
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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 future of the Middle East.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Rachel Aspden is a former literary editor of the New Statesman and now works at The Guardian. She has written on the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and South Africa for the New Statesman, The Guardian, Observer, Prospect, and New York Review of Books. She lived in Cairo from 2003-2005 and 2012-2015. In 2010 she was awarded a yearlong travel fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research activists working to counter extremism within Islam. She is currently based in London.