2012, ISBN: 1250006694

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[EAN: 9781250006691], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y.], EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION, EGYPT--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, MUBARAK, SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, KHALID SAI… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781250006691], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y.], EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION, EGYPT--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, MUBARAK, SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, KHALID SAIEED, CIVIL RIGHTS, CORRUPTION, SOCIAL MEDIA, TAHIR SQUARE, EL BARADEI, DAY OF RAGE, PROTESTS, Jacket, x, [2], 324 pages. Footnotes. Signed with comment by the author on the half-title page. Notation reads: Never Forget Tahrir Square! Ashaf Khalil, Jan. 30, 2012. Book includes Acknowledgments, Author's Note, and Prologue: Cairo Burning. Chapters include The Accidental Dictator; Signposts on the Way to Tahrir; "And What If We Say 'No'?'; The Emergency Law Martyr; The Rigged Game; The EIBaradei Effect; Uncharted Waters; Safwat's Last Stand; The Fall of the Police State; Thug Rule; The Battle of Tahrir; The Golden Age of the Republic of Tahir; Al Jazeera Under Siege; "We Need to Drag Him from His Castle"; "One Hand" Divided; The Bearded Hords; Tearing Down the Propaganda Machine; and The Reckoning. Ashraf Khalil is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and author of the critically acclaimed book Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation, an account of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the final few years of Hosni Mubarak's rule leading up to it. He currently works for the Associated Press, and in the past his freelance work has been published by Foreign Policy, The Times of London and Rolling Stone, among others. An alumnus of Indiana University, Khalil is a former Los Angeles Times correspondent in the Middle East. He served as editor-in-chief of the Cairo Times from 2001 to 2002, and his work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and The Economist. As a journalist based in Cairo, Ashraf Khalil was an eyewitness to the perfect storm that brought down Mubarak and his regime. Khalil was subjected to tear gas alongside protestors in Tahrir Square, barely escaped an enraged mob, and witnessed the day-to-day developments from the front lines. From the halls of power to the back alleys of Cairo, he offers a one-on-a-kind account of a nation in the throe of an uprising. Derived from a Kirkus review: A debut journalistic memoir by Cairo-based reporter Khalil, who covered the rise and fall of Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship. The author begins with the optimism that followed Mubarak's coming to power and presents a pattern of events that demonstrate how the corruption and intimidation practiced in a police state produced the demoralization and resignation that affected almost every Egyptian citizen. Khalil details how courageous individuals such as Saad Eddin Ibrahim-one of Egypt's leading civil-rights advocates, whose prosecution helped spark a mass movement against Mubarak in 2003 and 2004-began to stand up against the regime. The poisonous combination of judicial corruption and police brutality began to awake significant opposition, and the tipping point was the brutal beating death of Khalid Saieed in Alexandria on June 6, 2010. After pictures of his brutalized body were disseminated online, many Egyptians understood the gravity of the situation-anyone could be killed in the same way. Khalil's discussion of the role of the Internet and social media provides insight into how large numbers of people were organized to achieve specific objectives-for example, converging on Cairo's squares and other public areas. The author skillfully examines how the opposition to Egypt's paramilitary police gained strength, and how American diplomacy contributed to the cause. Khalil closes with the battle for Tahrir Square and the overthrow of the dictatorship. "Seeing Egyptians regain that sense of dignity, pride, and ownership," he writes, "was one of the most amazing aspects of the entire pressurized three-week Egyptian revolution." A personal account that will be appreciated by those looking to move beyond the day's headlines, from one who wrote some of the stories published under those headlines. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]., Books<

2012, ISBN: 9781250006691

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, [2], 324 pages. Footnotes. Signed with comment by the aut… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, [2], 324 pages. Footnotes. Signed with comment by the author on the half-title page. Notation reads: Never Forget Tahrir Square! Ashaf Khalil, Jan. 30, 2012. Book includes Acknowledgments, Author's Note, and Prologue: Cairo Burning. Chapters include The Accidental Dictator; Signposts on the Way to Tahrir; "And What If We Say 'No'?'; The Emergency Law Martyr; The Rigged Game; The EIBaradei Effect; Uncharted Waters; Safwat's Last Stand; The Fall of the Police State; Thug Rule; The Battle of Tahrir; The Golden Age of the Republic of Tahir; Al Jazeera Under Siege; "We Need to Drag Him from His Castle"; "One Hand" Divided; The Bearded Hords; Tearing Down the Propaganda Machine; and The Reckoning. Ashraf Khalil is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and author of the critically acclaimed book Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation, an account of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the final few years of Hosni Mubarak's rule leading up to it. He currently works for the Associated Press, and in the past his freelance work has been published by Foreign Policy, The Times of London and Rolling Stone, among others. An alumnus of Indiana University, Khalil is a former Los Angeles Times correspondent in the Middle East. He served as editor-in-chief of the Cairo Times from 2001 to 2002, and his work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and The Economist. As a journalist based in Cairo, Ashraf Khalil was an eyewitness to the perfect storm that brought down Mubarak and his regime. Khalil was subjected to tear gas alongside protestors in Tahrir Square, barely escaped an enraged mob, and witnessed the day-to-day developments from the front lines. From the halls of power to the back alleys of Cairo, he offers a one-on-a-kind account of a nation in the throe of an uprising. Derived from a Kirkus review: A debut journalistic memoir by Cairo-based reporter Khalil, who covered the rise and fall of Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship. The author begins with the optimism that followed Mubarak's coming to power and presents a pattern of events that demonstrate how the corruption and intimidation practiced in a police state produced the demoralization and resignation that affected almost every Egyptian citizen. Khalil details how courageous individuals such as Saad Eddin Ibrahim-one of Egypt's leading civil-rights advocates, whose prosecution helped spark a mass movement against Mubarak in 2003 and 2004-began to stand up against the regime. The poisonous combination of judicial corruption and police brutality began to awake significant opposition, and the tipping point was the brutal beating death of Khalid Saieed in Alexandria on June 6, 2010. After pictures of his brutalized body were disseminated online, many Egyptians understood the gravity of the situation-anyone could be killed in the same way. Khalil's discussion of the role of the Internet and social media provides insight into how large numbers of people were organized to achieve specific objectives-for example, converging on Cairo's squares and other public areas. The author skillfully examines how the opposition to Egypt's paramilitary police gained strength, and how American diplomacy contributed to the cause. Khalil closes with the battle for Tahrir Square and the overthrow of the dictatorship. "Seeing Egyptians regain that sense of dignity, pride, and ownership," he writes, "was one of the most amazing aspects of the entire pressurized three-week Egyptian revolution." A personal account that will be appreciated by those looking to move beyond the day's headlines, from one who wrote some of the stories published under those headlines., St. Martin's Press, 2012, 3<