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Beirut Arab Book Fair

Arab Spring dominate books at Beirut Arab book fair

TNA

وكالات , 14 Dec 2011 - 9:36

Lebanese writers highlight the role of social networks in accelerating revolutions and political changes worldwide.


Ali Harb, a Lebanese prominent writer said that revolutions are a major event to change the standards by focusing in his book "The revolutions of Gentle Forces in the Arab world," the importance of the Internet as a new factor who was not present in the revolutions of the past, and that this factor has an easy communication between Arab youth.

The current revolution in the opinion of the writer, are not the result of a political party or ideology or secular philosophies, but there is a new factor represented by the youth, focusing on what happens in Tunisia , Egypt and Yemen.

For his part, Dr Samir Tanee speaks in his book, "the popular revolution in the Arab World", published by Dar Al-Farabi, the uprising of youth in the Arab world and the fight against corruption, injustice and tyranny, and their quest to abolish the dictatorship of the rulers and to the people involved in politics, and attempts to transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Some books have focused on the revolution in a country like Egypt or Tunisia, for example the book "a woman watching the sun" by the Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi, including a dialogue with young people in Cairo's Al-Tahrir square. The writer also includes questions about what will happen after the revolution in Egypt.

In his novel "from the leaves of a young Egyptian man," Hamza Qenawi speaks of daily life in Egypt, in light of corruption, and goes into the depths of the human psyche to monitor the recent collapse of human the novel is limited to the period before the revolution of January ۲۵ in Egypt.

Also, "Republic of Terror" by Hassan Sabra is a critical reading of the revolution by the people of Libya against Muammar Gaddafi, also discusses the reasons and consequences of events in Libya, which recently acquiescent.


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