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Wael Ghonim talks revolution in Egypt

By Joseph P. Kahn

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 28, 2012

The 31-year-old Egyptian, a Google marketing executive, helped spark the Arab Spring revolution a year ago with a Facebook page he created to honor a slain protester. In his new memoir “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power,’’ Ghonim writes about his detention by Egyptian security forces and his continuing role in shaping the revolution that struggles to bring democracy to modern Egypt.

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