The Story of a Revolution, Told in Real Time
Omar Robert Hamilton’s debut novel, <em>The City Always Wins</em>, follows members of an activist media collective chronicling the aftermath of the Egyptian uprising.
“Hello, dearly liberated from the streets of our revolution, today we’ve got news from the front lines, tunes from the underground, and every political beat you need to get through your week.”
So begins each podcast produced by Chaos, the media collective that is, in its way, a protagonist of . Omar Robert Hamilton’s debut follows Egypt’s revolution as if in real time, chronicling the aftermath of the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square through the experiences of Khalil, an Egyptian-Palestinian-American; Mariam, his Egyptian girlfriend; and their colleagues at Chaos, which they’ve founded in response to the state-controlled media. (It closely resembles the non-fictional that Hamilton, a writer and filmmaker who “moved to
