Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond Amina; Fiction; Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature; FICTION / Literary Tracey Turner

Tracey Turner

tucked away behind a busy street

but he cannot keep hiding

But the nation's love-affair with cider didn't fully blossom until after the reformation

and the royal family was soon to be written out of Egypt's official history

Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond Amina; Fiction; Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature; FICTION / Literary Tracey TurnerBeginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the Arab Spring in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in the regions most populous country, Egypt, led to key