Download Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made it AudioBook Free
The Tweets accounts of the activists who helped bring heady days of trend to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exciting picture of uprising in real-time. A large number of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution, as it just happened. This book brings together a selection of key tweets in a persuasive, fast-paced narrative, allowing the storyplot of the uprising to find out directly by individuals in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Background has never before been written in this fashion. The tweet limit of 140 individuals evidently concentrated the feelings of these using Twitter. Raw emotion bursts using their announcements, whether frantic security alarm at disorders from pro-government thugs or delirious delight at nov the dictator. To read these tweets is to embark a rollercoaster drive, from the shock and enthusiasm of the first demo, to the horror of the assault that claimed hundreds of lives, to the final ecstasy of triumph. A lot of those tweeting also got photographs with the telephones and these illustrate the booklet, providing amazing snapshots from the heart and soul of the action. Edited by young activists Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle, an Egyptian who was in Tahrir Square when Mubarak fell, Tweets from Tahrir is a highly original take on one of the main and dramatic occurrences in recent world politics. The result is as gripping as any thriller - but it's all real.
