To some it may seem as though the uprising in Egypt happened without much warning. But not for Egyptian-born scholar and author Tarek Osman, whose predictive book, Egypt on the Brink, reads like a subtle "I told you so."
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Egypt on the Brink unpacks the political, social and religious tensions that led to the eventual ousting of President Mubarak. Through an examination of bitter Muslim-Christian relations and the growing hostility between the educated elite and struggling lower class, Osman offers readers a primer on the conditions in modern Egypt that led to its remarkable revolution.
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