Into the Hands of the Soldiers review: how democracy failed in Egypt

David Kirkpatrick covered the Arab Spring for the New York Times as coup followed coup in Cairo

In December 2010, a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze. His death sparked a conflagration that raged from North Africa to the Levant and all the way to the Gulf.

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