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Egypts revolution as it unfolded in the words of the people. Pdf tweets from tahrir by nadia idle download pdf free. Alex nunns is a british author, editor and political activist. Now an enterprising publisher, or books, has gathered many of those twitter messages for a book, tweets from tahrir, a narrative of the revolution told in snippets of 140 characters or less. Jan 01, 2011 tweets from tahrir represents the first of its kind, a brand new literary form. This book brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fastpaced narrative, allowing the story of the uprising to be told directly by the people in cairos tahrir square. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the synopsis submission guide. Young, urbane and highlymotivated, cairos twitterati revealed the truth of the scale of the uprising which egypts state media sought to hide, and gave a streetlevel, minutebyminute account both of how the persistence and bravery of the egyptian people. The twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to egypt in january and february this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in realtime. Egypts revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people wh.
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Militarybacked riot police approach tahrir square to break up protestors located at occupy tehrir on november 19 in cairo, egypt. Nadia idle editor nadia idle is halfenglish, halfegyptian, grew up in egypt and now lives in london. Tahrir square tweet by tweet world news the guardian. Read the road to tahrir square egypt and the united states from the rise of nasser to the fall of mubarak by lloyd c. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download. Apr 14, 2011 extracted from tweets from tahrir, edited by nadia idle and alex nunns, published at. Social media and the so called twitter revolution were not a revolution, but a tool. Tweets from tahrir follows the experiences of five young, englishspeaking tweeps. Alex nunns, a british journalist, and nadia idle, an egyptian citizen who was on the ground in cairo during the protests began archiving tweets as they were posted.
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