Casting aside a top rung job in one of the world’s most exciting companies, Wael Ghonim plunged into the mission to give the youth of his country a call to awaken. As a prized executive of Google, this young Egyptian grew increasingly disillusioned by the chaos, unjust and completely autocratic behavior of the government. One particular incident triggered off a feeling of anger and discontent within him and he fuelled it by using the medium of online social networking site- Facebook to create what would become a wave of protests, unprecedented in Egypt and anywhere in the world.
This book aims to be a documentation of many things: how Ghonim brought together thousands of people who eventually began to speak as one, how many hurdles he had to face to do so and of course, the fiercely patriotic and revolutionary events that each of those 18 days witnessed. This book does not aim to put forth an exhaustive documentary of the ancient history of Egypt or the period prior to the revolution. It’s motive is basically to lay down the events of the revolution and events leading to it.
