(1) About The Struggler -Summary and Home Page

Ahlan we Sahlan (Welcome)

 

This is the site for Sean Binkley's blog based novel or 'blogvel' the Struggler.

An adventure and mystery set in Egypt after the January 25th Revolution of 2011, the Struggler, is a fictional story based in part on the two years the author spent living in the country between 2010 and 2012. 

The Struggler attempts to reveal some of the social, economic and political issues that led so many Egyptians to go out into the streets and overthrow their government as well as the great hardships, tragedies and political traumas that followed in the first year and half after Egypt's President of three decades left office. 

 

The story follows the path of a young American who returns to Egypt four days after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. As he tries to settle back into a new Cairo, a mystery is unveiled through a series of stories detailing the rise and fall of an enigmatic rebellious figure known as 'the Struggler'. This figure's fight for justice, spanning distant and recent upheavals in Egypt's modern history, reveals the conditions that led to Revolution and the hardships and determination of a people attempting to survive a harsh world and clouded horizons.

The four act novel, is available exclusively on this site. It is uploaded several chapters at a time every ten days.  

 

-The latest post takes the reader as far as Act 2. 

-The post proceeding the most recent one is also available on the blog. 

-New readers who want to start from the beginning are able to go to the archive section and view the book in it's entirety as time progresses.

The first chapter of the Struggler was made available on January 25th 2013, the second year anniversary of the Revolution. 

 

This blogvel is dedicated to the Egyptian shebab (youth) who protested, fought and died during the Uprising as well as to the the dream of a better Egypt. That dream is a struggle that continues to this day.