A recent visit by a prominent writer in the Arab world, Alaa Al Aswany, brought together Arabic language students, faculty from the history and political science departments, and members of the ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robyn Creswell THE REPUBLIC OF FALSE TRUTHS By Alaa Al Aswany Translated by S. R. Fellowes Alaa ...

In his latest novel, Au soir d’Alexandrie (“Evening in Alexandria”), Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany tells the story of the late 1950s under the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was in power for 14 ...

Despite its seemingly incongruous title, Alaa Al Aswany’s novel Chicago is filled with characters who reflect the conflicting political and social currents churning through Egypt today. There is Nagi, ...

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 ...

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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, ...