Revolution between hard covers

摘要

The Middle East has a bad reputation when it conies to books; nowhere else do so few people read them. But that might change as censorship rules are relaxed and new books begin to dissect the popular uprisings that felled despots in Egypt and Tunisia-along with other delicate subjects. Eye-witness accounts, jeremiads and self-congratulatory memoirs jostle for space at the Cairo book fair, which coincides this month with the first anniversary of the revolutions.