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Revolution is My Name: An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir (Paperback)
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Revolution is My Name: An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir (Paperback)
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A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful
and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's
experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that
led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February
2011.
Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear, certitude and anxiety,
Prince immerses us in each day's unexpected and inconclusive
details, as she meets other writers and intellectuals involved in
the demonstrations. Mixing the political and the personal, the
public and the private, she exposes both her family's conservative
politics and her own classist prejudices against other sectors of
Egyptian society, all of whom teach her lasting transformative
lessons.
There are moving descriptions of the brutal violence of the
security forces against demonstrators, the daily battles of
resistance, and the author's own abduction and beating at the hands
of the police, but she also paints scenes of exceptional
solidarity, perseverance, and humanity, while weaving in
conversations with fellow demonstrators, new-found friends, and
street children, as well as police conscripts and officers. She
describes her fears for her sister, who disappears on the day of
the infamous Battle of the Camel, their decision to join the
sit-in, cooking for the protesters, singing and dancing in the cold
to sustain energy during the long nights, and sleeping by the army
tanks to stop them from moving in.
Revolution Is My Name is a testimony not only of women's
participation in the Egyptian uprising and their courage in
confronting constrictive gender divides at home and on the street
but equally of the important contribution of women writers as
chroniclers of the momentous events of January and February 2011.
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