Publisher's Description
More than four years on The People chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest nation fought for social and economic change in the face of a brutal political regime that wanted to maintain the status quo. Following El-Tantawy’s In the Shadow of the Pyramids — a first person account exploring memory and identity through the author’s experience before and during the country’s turbulent political struggle, The People takes a step back from the personal narrative.
Published in a newspaper format and narrated by “the people,” El-Tantawy’s second publication aims to preserve and celebrate the vanishing memory of one of the most historically relevant chapters in modern-day Egypt’s story.
With its text in Arabic the books is meant to have the feel of an Arabic newspaper.
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