In Alaa Al Aswany’s hugely popular novel the real-life Yacoubian building, erected to house Cairo’s elite and since fallen into genteel decay, functions as a compact metaphor for the shifting strata ...
Renowned Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, author of the award winning The Yacoubian Building, discusses his experience during the Egyptian revolution and his book, The Republic of False Truths, which ...
The Republic of False Truths. By Alaa Al Aswany. Translated by S.R. Fellowes. Faber; 464 pages; £16.99. To be published in America by Knopf in August; $28.95 IN “THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING” (2002), Alaa ...
The biggest-budget film in Egyptian film history has just wrapped with controversy already brewing over its racy content. “The Yacoubian Building,” based on Alaa Al-Aswany’s bestselling novel, follows ...
Since the release of his first novel, “The Yacoubian Building,” in 2002, Alaa al Aswany has catapulted from being a dentist with a literary bent to the Arab-speaking world’s best-selling fiction ...
Alaa Al-Aswany is Egypt’s preeminent novelist. His 2002 best-seller The Yacoubian Building highlighted the political corruption, moral duplicity, and economic inequality of contemporary Egypt, and ...
Egyptian helmer Marwan Hamed doesn’t do small. His first feature — 2006’s “The Yacoubian Building” — was an audacious big-budget adaptation of Alaa Al-Aswany’s bestselling novel of the same name. With ...
In his deft new collection, the ever-controversial Al Aswany (The Yacoubian Building) again delves into the various miseries of modern Egyptian life. In the long story “The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers,” ...
Alaa Al Aswany, one of the most renowned novelists of the Arab world, almost gave up writing. After Egypt’s state publisher rejected his first two novels in the 1990s, he published them himself, ...