While millions of Egyptians continue to demonstrate day in day out on Cairo s Tahrir square to claim freedom after 30 years of oppression and autocracy, Western commentators marvel about the timing and causes of what will soon be known as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. ---- With remarkable foresight, Zed authors Rabab El-Mahdi and Philip Marfleet in late 2009 compiled a book explaining not only what political, economic and societal factors lead to the current uprising; but also why it is no coincidence that it happens now. Prophetically entitled Egypt. The Moment of Change , it meticulously describes the growing internal pressures the Mubarak regime has been facing over the last years, including chapters on the omnipresent torture, Islamism, and the budding social movements for democratic opening in Egypt. ---- Now that the change is happening, Egypt. The Moment of Change is the only book on the market to accessibly examine contemporary Egyptian society. With many of the chapters written by Egyptian academics and activists who are now on the very first line of the barricades, this is the one book that has all the answers.