Revolution 2. 0. We drive V.

“If one hundred thousand go to the street, no one can stop us!”

about the author of these words and the book “Revolution 2.0”, a person named Vael, IT -Engineer, company marketing director Google in the Middle East and North Africa - the whole world unexpectedly recognized in 2011, when Time magazine put it on the first line in the annual rating of the most influential people on the planet.

in the summer of 2010, created Vaelah is persecuting the Facebook page became a kind of meeting place of the opposition movement that arose in Egypt. On the first day, a little more than ten people visited it. Just six months later, on behalf of three hundred and fifty thousand subscribers, this page called for an uprising - a popular revolution against injustice, unemployment, corruption and torture. On January 25, 2011, the uprising began. On February 11, 2011, the power of the dictator was overthrown.

“Revolution 2.0”, one of the most anticipated books of 2012 according to the version of the magazine “Poster”, tells the story of the persecution - the path that he traveled from an ordinary person, dissatisfied with the situation in the situation in the country, to the leader of the revolution. From a computer keyboard to a prison cell, from lonely posts on Facebook to a piercing television interview that touched millions of people.

But not only about this.

as a journalist wrote in the preface to the Russian publication Yuri Saprykin: “Reading the book of Vael is persecuted, it is difficult to get rid of the feeling that this book is not only about Egypt - something like this happens literally before our eyes, and sometimes directly with us.”

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