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Cairo

memoir of a city transformed
A firsthand account of the Egyptian Revolution. A native of Cairo, the author details the events of January 25, 2011, when thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime.

Rebels by accident

2014
What she wanted was a vacation. What she got was a revolution. After attending her first high school party lands her in jail, Mariam thinks things can't possibly get worse. So when her parents send her to live with her grandmother in Cairo, she is sure her life is over. Her Sittu is Darth Vader's evil sister, and Mariam is convinced that the only sights she'll get to see in Egypt are the rooms in her grandmother's apartment.
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