{"id":73628,"date":"2011-03-08T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=73628"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:18:50","slug":"tweets-from-tahrir-to-be-published-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/08\/tweets-from-tahrir-to-be-published-in-the-us.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tweets from Tahrir&#8217; to be Published in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US publisher plans to come out with a book next month featuring a collection of Twitter messages sent during the protests in Egypt that led to the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 160-page book, &#8220;Tweets from Tahrir,&#8221; named for the Cairo square at the epicenter of the anti-government protests, is to be published on April 21 by OR Books.<\/p>\n<p>OR Books said the collection &#8220;brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative&#8221; and paints &#8220;an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raw emotion bursts from their messages, whether frantic alarm at attacks from pro-government thugs or delirious happiness at the fall of the dictator,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To read these tweets is to embark [on] a rollercoaster ride, from the surprise and excitement of the first demonstration, to the horror of the violence that claimed hundreds of lives, to the final ecstasy of victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edited by activists Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns with a foreword by author Ahdaf Soueif, the book will cost $12 in paperback and $10 as an electronic book.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US publisher plans to come out with a book next month featuring a collection of Twitter messages sent during the protests in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20829,21069,23090,23089,12612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}