Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir

Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir

by Wael Ghonim
Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir

Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir

by Wael Ghonim

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Overview

“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle

Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in the summer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of one Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. The page’s following expanded quickly and moved from online protests to a nonconfrontational movement. On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square resounded with calls for change. Yet just as the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation. After he was released, he gave a tearful speech on national television, and the protests grew more intense. Four days later, the president of Egypt was gone.

In this riveting story, Ghonim takes us inside the movement and shares the keys to unleashing the power of crowds. In Revolution 2.0, we can all be heroes.

Revolution 2.0 is an engaging read, and it offers a sharply detailed look from the inside of an uprising that owed almost as much to social media connections as it did to anti-Mubarak passions.” — Los Angeles Times

Revolution 2.0 excels in chronicling the roiling tension in the months before the uprising, the careful organization required and the momentum it unleashed.” — NPR.org

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547867090
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 01/15/2013
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wael Ghonim was born in Cairo and grew up in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, earning a degree from Cairo University in 2004 and an MBA from the American University in Cairo in 2007.  He joined Google in 2008, rising to become Head of Marketing for Google Middle East and North Africa. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Table of Contents

Prologue xi

1 A Regime of Fear 1

2 Searching for a Savior 28

3 "Kullena Khaled Said" 58

4 Online and on the Streets 82

5 A Preannounced Revolution 122

6 January 25, 2011 161

7 My Name Is 41 188

8 The Dungeon 218

9 A Pharaoh Falls 249

Epilogue 292

Acknowledgments 295

Index 297

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