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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.
Alaa al aswany biography of barack
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