باولو

The book reproduces in full a blog that went online as the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda sit-ins of Mohamed Morsi's Islamist supporters were broken up. Its author, Paolo, gives his account of the revolutionary movement since 2011 and of the secret struggles before Morsi's election. He seems at first to be just a photographer and the manager of a private library among the intellectuals of downtown Cairo, but he is also an informer for State Security, a Don Juan whose lovers all end up dead, and, in his own eyes, the hidden leader of the revolution, bringing the revolutionaries a prophecy of their defeat.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt, 2011–2013

First published

2016 by Dar al-Tanwir

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789776483583 (original)