In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fusing memoir with a meditation on creative block and a cultural history of limbo, Dan Fox considers the role that fallow periods and …
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents: his mother when he was sixteen, his…
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his…
Intro -- PRAISE -- TITLE PAGE -- CONTENTS -- CHRONOLOGY: EGYPT 1952-2021 -- FOREWORD BY NAOMI KLEIN -- INTRODUCTION -- 2011 -- WHO WILL WRITE THE CONSTITUTION? -- TO BE WITH THE MARTYRS, FOR THAT IS FAR BETTER -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO RIGHTSCON 2011 -- RETURN TO MUBARAK'S PRISONS -…
Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas …
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 39, is arguably the most high profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world. A leading figure among the young technologists and bloggers of the 2000s he rose to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinke…
