Writing revolution
Subtitle: the voices from Tunis to Damascus
By: edited by Matthew Cassel and Layla Al-Zubaidi ; translated by Robin Moger and Georgina Collins with an introduction by Samar Yazbek
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780857721815; 9780857733290; 9781780765402
Subjects: Arab Spring, 2010-; Globalization; Protest literature; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Revolutionary literature; Personal narratives; Arab Spring (2010- ) fast (OCoLC)fst01896290
Description: From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes shaking their region. Situated between past, present and future - in a space where the personal and the political collide - these voices are part of an ongoing process, one that is at once hopeful and heartbreaking. Unique amongst material emanating from and about the convulsions in the.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE; title: Acknowledgements; title: Contributors; title: Introduction; title: 1. Greetings to the dawn: living through the bittersweet revolution (Tunisia); title: 2. Cairo, city in waiting (Egypt); title: 3. Bayou and laila (Libya); title: 4. We are not Swallows (Algeria); title: 5. The Resistance: armed with words (Yemen); title: 6. Coming down from the Tower (Bahrain); title: 7. Wishful Thinking (Saudi Arabia); title: 8. And the demonstrations go on.