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

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

WaelGhonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in thesummer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protestthe death of one Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. Thepage’s following expanded quickly and moved from online protests to anonconfrontational movement. On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Squareresounded with calls for change. Yet just as the revolution began inearnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutalinterrogation. After he was released, he gave a tearful speech onnational television, and the protests grew more intense. Four dayslater, 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 2.0is an engaging read, and it offers a sharply detailed look from theinside of an uprising that owed almost as much to social mediaconnections as it did to anti-Mubarak passions.” — Los Angeles Times

“Revolution 2.0excels in chronicling the roiling tension in the months before theuprising, the careful organization required and the momentum itunleashed.” —