Name: Tweets from Tahrir
ISBN: 9781935928461

Alex Nunns

Nadia Idle

The Twitter posts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in early 2011, paint a picture of an uprising in real time. This book brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fastpaced narrative, allowing the story to be told directly by the people who made the revoltution.

Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People who Made it

Tweets from Tahrir

Hussein Mahran

I almost cried at some tweets! it's the story of the Egyptian Revolution right from the people who made it and right from the heart of Tahrir Square and other spots in Cairo, however I still have a few notes:

1. The tweets mentioned in the book are limited to people who tweet in English which deprived us from maybe 95% of activists and eyewitnesses who - obviously in such critical circumstances - tweeted in Arabic so that they can reach the majority of people in Egypt.

2. I like how the editors copied the tweets as they were spontaneously written and even with syntax errors.

3. It was important and critical to document the daily events of the revolution before it gets counterfeited by certain forces, people now know exactly what happened in every day, I already felt like these tweets were written 10 years ago, the current situation is much different, a lot has happened since Feb 11th.

Tweets from Tahrir Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People who Made it

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