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From award-winning journalist Jack port Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics. In early on 2011 Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the interest of the world. Half a 10 years later, the international press has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab world's most populous region remains as volatile as ever, its turmoil intimately destined up with types of authoritarian vitality and grassroots amount of resistance that stretch out right throughout the world. In The Egyptians: A Radical Report, Jack port Shenker uncovers the origins of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the center East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging regular analyses that depict modern Egypt as a challenge between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other a lot more important fault lines: the far-flung communities waging warfare against transnational corporations, the women and men struggling to subvert long-established gender norms, the staff significantly seizing control of their own factories, and the ethnical providers (novelists, graffiti painters and illicit bedroom DJs) appropriating general public space in defiance of the repressive and more and more violent Western-backed regime. Situating the Egyptian revolution in its proper framework - not as an isolated event but as an ongoing popular have difficulty against a certain style of state specialist and economical exclusion that is replicated in different forms round the world - The Egyptians points out why the happenings of the past five years have proved so intimidating to elites both inside Egypt and in foreign countries. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all types of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young technology are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice and amount of resistance which could yet change the world. Jack port Shenker is a journalist based in London and Cairo whose reporting has spanned the globe. Formerly Egypt correspondent for The Guardian, his coverage of the Egyptian revolution received multiple awards. In 2012 his research into the deaths of African migrants in the Mediterranean was known as news account of the year at the renowned One World press awards.
