Tugrul Mende

4 days ago | qantara.de | Tugrul Mende |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Andrea Backhaus |Jannis Hagmann

Egyptian author Youssef Rakha · 12.05.2025 Youssef Rakha revisits Egypt's 2011 uprising and its aftermath in "The Dissenters", the author's first novel written in English. The Arab Spring failed, he argues in this interview, because it was a neoliberal movement with no compelling vision for the future.