Earlier this spring, SMU students followed the Egyptian revolution on Twitter and Dallas held it’s own protests in support of the ousting of Mubarak. But as the protests in Syria and the rest of the Middle East continue to expand, no book is as relevant as Robin Wright’s “Rock the Casbah” was written to depict what Wright has called the “politics and culture of Babes.”
But Wright also tells of the more serious side of these protests. In her book are stories of women protesting female circumcision and of the new martyrdom, a form not designed to kill anyone else, but instead to shame the government.
She also is quick to point out that this wave of change across the region is far from over. But Wright predicts in “Rock the