Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’sYouth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (2022) joins the body of published books that contribute to a historiography of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. The book opens with an “Introduction” which frames the whole project by addressing leadership in social movements and the agency of young people in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Then follow seven chapters, each divided into connected sections with the last chapter serving as a conclusion.The central argument of the book is that the January 2011 Revolution that mobilised millions of Egyptians to take to the streets was not an uprising triggered by a single major event, but a result of years of organising and protests that escalated within the Egyptian opposition and culminated in the emergence of various movements.
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