The anthology “Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus”, supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s office in Beirut, is one of the six books to receive the “English PEN Award for Outstanding Writing in Translation” in the year 2013.
The book is edited by Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Nemonie Craven Roderick and published by Penguin Books. The book feature first hand testimonies on the ongoing political struggles in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Saudi-Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. It will be soon republished in the US under the title "Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus".
"By now, you’ve heard of the Arab Spring. But most of the secondhand accounts you’ve read were composed in the safety of a news studio...For readers interested in the personal, firsthand stories of the young men and women who stood and fought in those chaotic city squares throughout the Middle East, the English PEN Award–winning Diaries adds a vastly different, historically vital perspective on the Arab Spring’s revolutions-in-progress" Adam Morgan, Booklist
"With both poetic flourish and eyewitness intensity, the events of the Arab Spring are rendered newly relevant and visceral in this anthology of first-person accounts from Tunisia to Syria" Publishers Weekly