NEW YORK (AP) — A Google executive's highly anticipated memoir about the uprising in Egypt has been acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The publisher announced Monday that Wael Ghonim’s "Revolution 2.0" would come out in January.
Ghonim is an an Egyptian who oversees Google’s marketing in the Middle East and Africa. He helped inspire the revolt through a Facebook page he started in honor of Khaled Said, a 28-year-old businessman who died in June at the hands of undercover police, a hated institution for many Egyptians.
Ghonim announced his sabbatical from Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc. last month to write the book. Proceeds will go toward a charity that Ghonim founded to fight poverty and encourage education.
