Booklist reviews “Once Upon a Revolution”
Middle East reporter Cambanis, who writes the “Internationalist” column for the Boston Globe and regularly contributes to the New York Times, offers a gripping portrayal of the forces that led to the...
View ArticlePublisher’s Weekly review
Another review out in Publisher’s Weekly of Once Upon a Revolution. ONCE UPON A REVOLUTION As the heady days of revolution in Tahrir Square recede further into the past, liberal democracy in Egypt...
View ArticleStay Thirsty asks about Egypt
A conversation with Stay Thirsty magazine. STAY THIRSTY: In your new book, Once Upon A Revolution, you say that at the beginning of the 2011 Tahrir Revolution the revolutionaries spoke in bold strokes....
View ArticleFour years after Tahrir, what would make another uprising?
An anti-Mubarak protester in Tahrir Square, in November 2014 (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters) [Published in The Atlantic. Arabic translation available at Sasa Post.] CAIRO—Four years after the revolution...
View ArticleBook Launch: Leonard Lopate show
On Tuesday, Once Upon a Revolution went on sale. We kicked off with a great conversation on WNYC with guest host Aasif Mandvi. You can listen here.
View ArticleEgypt panel at Center for American Progress
A great session in Washington that featured retired General Jim Matthis, then the panel discussing the CAP report on Egypt (Brian Katulis, Mokhtar Awad, Amy Hawthorne, Michael Hanna), and then a...
View ArticlePolitics & Prose
http://www.c-span.org/video/?323981-1/book-discussion-upon-revolution You can also listen to the audio podcast of the talk from the Politics & Prose site, although I can’t find the link yet..
View ArticleBook launch roundup
I’m tying up loose ends from the first stage of the book tour and preparing to launch a variety of new projects. Here I’ve collected appearances about Egypt and the book from the recent spell. Here...
View ArticleQ & A with Micah Zenko
Micah Zenko’s “Ten What’s” for CFR’s Politics, Power, and Preventive Action blog. 1. What is the most interesting project you are currently working on? Interesting to whom? As an antidote to the mostly...
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