Democracy is the answer: Egypt's years of revolution - 54095

As 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 Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolution's ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath.

This 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.