Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus: 0 - Softcover

Willem Floor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780765401 ISBN 13: 9781780765402

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2013

Synopsis

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 Arab Middle East, these creative and original writers speak of history, determination and struggle, as well as of political and poetic engagement with questions of identity and activism. This book gives a moving and inspiring insight into the Arab revolutions and uprisings: why they are happening and what might come next.

About this title

About the Author

Layla Al-Zubaidi is Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in South Africa, and was previously based in Beirut and Ramallah. She works to support political activists and has published on cultural resistance and freedom of expression.

Matthew Cassel is a journalist and photographer covering the Middle East for Al Jazeera English. Over the past decade he has worked in the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain and elsewhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780765401
• ISBN 13: 9781780765402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi