Fahmi suggests that social workers and others need to respect the agency the children display in changing their own lives.

They are able to challenge the roles assigned to children, make judgments, and develop a network of niches and resources in a teeming metropolis such as Cairo. Fahmi argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives and finding relative freedom in the street, are capable of actively defining their situations in their own terms. In Beyond the Victim, sociologist Kamal Fahmi draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a much different-and empowering-light. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated. Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. 'Look carefully and you will see the reborn Egyptian phoenix in all the images, carrying the torch of change and tracing out the future in letters of light.'-Khaled Al Khamissi, author of Taxi. written on signs.'-Bassem Youssef, the Bassem Youssef show.

Only in a dream would that be enough to conquer oppression and injustice. 'Signs and words were all they had, no guns or weapons, just the will to hold their ground, holding signs. 'A unique, collective, visual translation of the powerful poetics of Egypt's revolution, which galvanized the world with its determination, creativity, drama, and humor these are memorable images that will forever be engraved in the histories of resistance.'-Samia Mehrez, author of The Literary Atlas of Cairo. 'Astonishing and often deeply moving images from the frontline of one of the most hopeful moments in modern history.'-William Dalrymple, author of From the Holy Mountain. This book chronicles the 25 January Revolution without text or theorizing it presents the reality of what happened, changing Egypt and the whole Arab world.'-Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building.

Paperback 'Photographs capture fleeting moments and live on, preserving truth and human emotion.

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