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**NAMED NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2017"**“Generation Revolution is an excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” – New York Times Book Review “Rachel Aspden’s Generation Revolution offers sharp insight into how the youth movement came together and why it fell apart…Chronicling the experiences of four young Egyptians, the book provides fascinating detail but no easy answers.” – Washington Post “A sobering but necessary education.” – Publishers Weekly “An earnest eyewitness account of a nation in tumult.” – Kirkus Review
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About the Author
Rachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006, at the age of 26. She now reports for The Guardian and writes freelance for the New Statesman, Observer, Prospect, and Think magazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo from 2003 to 2004 and worked as an editor and reporter for the English-language Cairo Times. In 2010 she was awarded a yearlong traveling fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research activists working to fight extremism within Islam. She is currently based in London.
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Product details
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press (February 7, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590518551
ISBN-13: 978-1590518557
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
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Essential reading for anyone who wants to get a sense of what the 2011 Egyptian upheaval and its aftermath looked like on the ground as events unfolded from day to day. The savagery of Egypt's police and security services are starkly highlighted. Of particular interest are Aspden's portraits young Egyptians who participated in the various factions contending for ascendancy, full of idealistic aspirations for ending a corrupt and oppressive system and for establishing a just and democratic order -- but with radically different views about what this would entail. Aspden has done a fine job of locating individuals representing a wide range of perspectives from atheist/secularist to zealous Islamist and from pro-democracy to hard line authoritarian. We who remember Egyptian society as it was many decades ago encounter a chilling assessment in Aspden's descriptions of the rise of a violently misogynist male culture. This seems to be linked to a widespread consumption of Western pornography that leads to a vicious practice of aggressive sexual harassment, which makes it highly dangerous for women to venture into public spaces -- as Aspden herself discovers. The brutal repression of dissent and the painful disillusionment and alienation of Egyptians who back in 2011 hoped for a better society with a decent government will have deleterious consequences over the coming decades, including a serious brain drain as highly talented Egyptians despair of their futures and migrate to Western democracies -- the same pattern that has drained Iran of its best and brightest since its revolution led only to a different type of despotism.
In 2003, Rachel Aspen, 23, had just landed in Cairo, where she hoped to launch her career as journalist. She lived in Cairo from 2003-2004 and then moved to other venues. At 26, she was literary editor of the New Statesman and she has continued to work as a freelancer, reporting in such prestigious journals as the New Statesman, Observer, Prospect and the Qatar Foundation’s English-language journal Think. All this time, from 2003 till now, she has dipped in and out of Cairo and Egypt, checking the temperature of its politics and thinking. In 2010 she was awarded a yearlong fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research activists working to fight extremism within Islam. (This is a direct quotation from the cover notes.) This book is one of the fruits of that research.What she found in Egypt in 2003 was a country of young people governed by old men who were desperately out of touch with them. 2/3s of the 70 million population were under the age of thirty. What would happen when the old men died or were shoved aside.? What did these young people aspire to and how prepared were they to take on the trappings of leadership? She focuses on a handful of young adults, five men and four women, and records their aspirations in the years preceding 2011, when it seemed impossible to imagine any change in government; to the unexpected overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in the spring of 2011; and to the twists and turns of the following years. BY the end of the book, which follows events through 2016, all of these young people are dispirited. Many are leaving their country. The goal of those who stay behind is to stay below the radar of a repressive, military-dominated government. As to hopes for enlightenment of the condition of women in this increasingly reactionary society, all hopes are gone.This book is a fine example of what responsible, well-researched journalism can bring to us, helping us better to understand and come to grips with issues that aren’t simple and because of the distance between our societies, aren’t immediately easy for us to grasp. Aspden writes well. But much more important than that, because she seriously tries to understand different viewpoints and lifestyles within the country she is examining, she can help us to understand how, in a society where hope and other options for self-identification and self-worth have vanished, even very conservative religious views can provide the vehicle for political reform. In Egypt at least, it is gratuitous violence we should be fighting, not religious conservatism, because all conservative groups are not the same.
First, the book is less about the Middle East in general than about Egypt in particular. For me, that was a plus as I'd visited Egypt and loved it. I admire the author's sheer bravery. I went as a cowardly western tourist, staying in top hotels and being escorted with tourist agents and police. The hotel sent an agent to get me through the airport. Crossing the street in Cairo was an adventure. Our guides were upper class Egyptians from wealthy families.In contrast, Rachel just booked a ticket and rented a cheap apartment in the heart of Cairo. She knew Arabic so she met people directly - mostly twenty-somethings - and spent time with them, beyond interviewing. She got to know them as friends so they were more than story.The result is a fascinating book that opens up Egypt - and to some extent, the rest of the region - like no factual history textbook. We see how individuals deal with the political and cultural regimes, especially a young woman who escaped her family to establish her own apartment and earn a good living as a single woman, and a physician who realized he'd become an atheist but didn't dare express his views aloud.Aspden writes engagingly, and each chapter reads like a New York Times Magazine article: filled with news filtered through human interest stories. At times the stories can be painful and there's no optimism for the future of Egypt and the Middle East. Each new president brings hope that's ultimately not fulfilled.The book seems especially timely for the US, as we're experiencing a presidency that brings us closer to dictatorship than we had believed possible, with many people denying that it's happening right before our eyes. In the first part of the book, Aspden notes that Suzanne Mubarak had tried to bring reforms and had worked with the arts. Yet she was feared as "elitist" by many of the people, who mistrusted her. "Secularism was associated with repression" in the minds of many.In spring of 2017, in the US, the parallels seem uncanny as well as terrifying.
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