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Alaa el aswany biography of william

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        1. About the Author.
        2. Alaa Al Aswany at the Edinburgh international book festival.
        3. Alaa Al Aswany, a dentist and opposition journalist in Cairo, broke onto the literary scene in with “The Yacoubian Building,” a novel.
        4. This novel is a fascinating portrait of a city and its people, and there are happy endings, as well as horribly tragic deaths.

          5. Alaa Al Aswany at the Edinburgh international book festival....

          Al Aswany, Alaa

          BORN: 1957, Egypt

          NATIONALITY: Egyptian

          GENRE: Fiction

          MAJOR WORKS:
          The Yacoubian Building (2002)
          Chicago (2007)

          Overview

          Alaa al Aswany is a contemporary Egyptian writer whose best-selling books use social realism to take an unflinching look at the problems of modern Egypt.

          Al Aswany also achieved recognition as one of the founders of Kefaya, a political coalition aimed at opposing the presidency of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.

          Works in Biographical and Historical Context

          A Dentist Turned Writer Al Aswany was born May 26, 1957, in Cairo, Egypt, during the sixteen-year rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's second president.

          He was trained as a dentist in both Egypt and Chicago. Al Aswany opened a dental clinic in the Yacoubian Building, the setting for his best-selling novel, before turning to writing. His novel The Yacoubian Building uses the building itself, as well as the intertwining stories of its fictional tenants, to depict the politic