Egypt: Regime Bans Critical Book on Country by British Author

Palgrave Macmillan was abreast this anniversary that bounded booksellers in Egypt are now banned from stocking copies of Inside Egypt.

New York -- Palgrave Macmillan was abreast this anniversary that bounded booksellers in Egypt are now banned from stocking copies of Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution by John R. Bradley (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, June 2008).

The book has accustomed boundless acclaim in the UK and USA and has been advised in Egypt's English-language paper, The Daily News Egypt, as able-bodied as a amount of Arabic-language Egyptian action newspapers.

About the Book
In Inside Egypt, Bradley examines the junctions of Egyptian backroom and association as they boring atomize beneath the accompanying pressures of a adamant aggressive absolutism at home and a awry Middle East action in Washington. Inside Egypt is a tour-de-force delineation of the a lot of barbarous Arab accompaniment area ache and bribery are endemic--but one that is aswell a key U.S. accessory and a celebrated bounded trendsetter.

About the Author
John R. Bradley has accounting for The Economist, The Washington Quarterly, The Financial Times, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Salon. He has aswell been interviewed abounding times by CNN, the BBC, Fox News, NPR and PBS. Fluent in Egyptian Arabic and a longtime citizen of Cairo, he is the columnist of Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (2005), the a lot of broadly advised and awful accepted book on the commonwealth appear in contempo years. http://www.johnrbradley.com

Praise for Inside Egypt
"Egypt is the next domino to abatement and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. John R. Bradley hits the attach on the head, answer why a colonnade of American ascendancy in that allotment of the apple is about to crumble." ROBERT BAER, columnist of See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil

"A baking overview of what it's like to abide today in this autocratic, hopelessly base society. Terrifically able-bodied told and acutely sobering." KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Inside Egypt is an original, angry, brilliant, subtle, and awful clear exposé of abreast Egyptian backroom and society." PETER BERGEN, columnist of Holy War Inc and The Osama bin Laden I Know

"A adverse appraisal of the accepted Egyptian absolute government." LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Compelling… John R. Bradley is a bohemian British journalist… who writes with a apparent assurance to accomplish a difference." NEW STATESMAN

"Essential account for anyone absorbed in avant-garde Egypt and the looming dramas of the Arab world." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

"John R. Bradley says that Egyptians adulation their country but abhorrence their regime. So does he -- and, afterwards account this scathing, heartbreaking, beautifully accounting address from the foreground lines, so will you." GIDEON ROSE, managing editor of Foreign Affairs

"An absorbing and abrupt attending into the minds of boilerplate Egyptians." THE OKLAHOMAN

"A must-read for anyone absorbed in Egyptian politics." THE DAILY NEWS (EGYPT)

Contact
To access a analysis copy, agency an article or altercate interviews and extracts, amuse contact: Sarah Thomas at sarah.thomas @ palgrave-usa.com or 646.307.5011