James Traub, Arab's Spring, Egypt's Fall. Uprisings tend to have two opposing parties. Egypt had four, each slamming the door shut just as the light of democracy began to shine through. Wall Street Journal, Aug 15, 2018
https://www.wsj.com/articles/int ... pts-fall-1534287518
online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/print/WSJ_-A015-20180815.pdf
(book review on David D Kirkpatrick, Into the Hands of Soldiers; Freedom and chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. Viking, 2018)
Note:
(a) John Reed (journalist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)
(1887 – 1920 (died of spotty typhus in Russia); wrote the 1919 book "Ten Days That Shook the World")
(b) Timothy Garton Ash (1955- ; British)
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