![]() ![]() Unlike some of the bleaker tales from the region, Taxi is a whirlwind of jokes and anecdotes and a commentary on the diversity, the hopes and the struggles that permeated this immense and teeming city in the years leading up to the protests of 2011. The ultimate book on the Egyptian Revolution ( Süddeutsche Zeitung,Germany) The new literary star from the Arab world ( Deutsche Welle, Germany) Illustrates the revolution ( Le Monde, France) 'Taxi's brilliance is that it captures the point at which cabs cease to be just a means of transportation' ( Foreign Policy Magazine) The novel that predicted the uprising ( France 24) (Chris Ross The Guardian)Ī book to make you feel guilty you ever tried to bargain down a cab fare in any poor country ( Chicago Tribune, US) This democratic cacophony transforms into a fresh and fast crash course not just in the backdrop to the Arab spring, but in all aspects of contemporary North African culture and people, from ever-present convenience foods to extreme hunger, and from economic migrants to avant-garde artists. Twitter feeds about what was coming down the road beside the Nile ( Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, UK) 'Prior to Egypt's revolution, Taxi would have told you more than a thousand Of course by meter rate I mean the taxi fare because the meter is there just as an ornament to embellish the car and to rip the trousers of customers who sit next to the driver. A frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking blast of jokes, anecdotes and revelations ( The Independent, UK) One of the direct social effects of the opposition movement Kefaya2 on the streets of Cairo is that it pushed up the taxi meter rate on demonstration days. ![]()
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