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Novelist chronicles Egypt’s rough revolutionary road

Alaa Al Aswany, the author of "The Yacoubian Building," has published a compendium of newspaper columns that trace the arc of Egypt’s recent political upheavals from the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 to the election of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last year.
Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany poses on February 12, 2014 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET        (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
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As the fourth anniversary of the Tahrir Square demonstrations that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak approaches, it is hard to be optimistic about Egypt’s political trajectory.

Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany's new book​ "Democracy is the Answer" underlines the reasons for this pessimism even as it argues that a real democratic transformation is Egypt’s only long-term hope.

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