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Rachel Aspden was born in London in 1980. She moved to Cairo to study Arabic and work as a trainee journalist in 2003 and spent the next several years travelling and writing about Islam and politics in Yemen, Pakistan and across the Middle East. After a period as the literary editor of the New Statesman, in 2010 she was awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship to research Islamic education while crossing Sudan and north India. Following the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, she moved back to Egypt. She has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and Prospect magazine.
Fascinating study... A deep dive into one of the revolution's most critical faultlines. -- Jack Shenker * Evening Standard * The Arab spring has yielded a bumper crop of books about youth across the region and Generation Revolution is among its more fruitful reads... Always compelling... Particularly interesting for its nuanced portraits of young Egyptian Men. -- Shereen El Feki * Observer * Having lived on and off in Cairo for more than a decade, Aspden has a clear eye for its marvelous and maddening details... her stories are always compelling... Generation Revolution is particularly interesting for its nuanced portraits of young Egyptian men... A welcome prism, separating the spectrum of political Islam through the coming of age of its characters... A sobering tale for anyone with an interest in Egypt's future. * Guardian * Those stories, full of compelling detail, give a vivid sense of the conflicting forces that propelled upheavals not only in Egypt but across a wide swath of the Middle East * RINF *
