{"product_id":"9781909942714","title":"Democracy Is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it—and try to push it in productive directions—than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for \u003ci\u003eAl-Masry Al-Youm \u003c\/i\u003eto propound the revolution’s ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents, for the first time in English, all of Al-Aswany’s columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, and a portrait of a country and a people in flux. Each column is presented along with a context-setting introduction, as well as notes and a glossary, all designed to give non-Egyptian readers the background they need to understand the events and figures that Al-Aswany chronicles. The result is a definitive portrait of Egypt today—how it got here, and where it might be headed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gingko Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019391025392,"sku":"9781909942714","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909942714","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}