{"product_id":"generation-revolution-rachel-aspden-9781590519820","title":"Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East","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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An 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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeneration Revolution 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\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Aspden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590519825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590519820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Rachel Aspden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173229129983,"sku":"9781590519820","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e237256-8034-4b9a-bd81-06036fe7d9a1.jpg?v=1689791697","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/generation-revolution-rachel-aspden-9781590519820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}