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Background informatiion
"On January 25, 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets across the country demanding the fall of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. This was only the beginning. More than four years on, الشعب (The People) chronicles how citizens in the Arab world’s largest nation fought for social and economic change in the face of a brutal political regime that wanted to maintain the status quo. Following EL-TANTAWY's 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' (self published photobook in 2015) - a first person account exploring memory and identity through the author’s experience before and during the country’s turbulent political struggle, الشعب takes a step back from the personal narrative.
Content
Published in a newspaper format and narrated by 'the people', EL-TANTAWY's second publication aims to preserve and celebrate the vanishing memory of one of the most historically relevant chapters in modern-day Egypt’s story." (Laura EL-TANTAWY)
Text based on interviews with Egyptians during & after Jan 25, 2011 / custom Arabic calligraphy - Egypt revolution graffiti stencils based on street drawings
About Egyptian Magnum photographer, Laura EL-TANTAWY (b.1980)
Photo books by as well as with works by Laura EL-TANTAWY
- Book design
- Sybren (SYB) KUIPER
- Format
- One main newspaper 42 x 29 cm., 32 pp. & two inserts 28,5 x 18,5 cm., one with 32 pp. (with 10 text pages) & another with 16 pp., color ills., Arabian, Ltd. to 1,500 copies