The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9 11 Chicago, and crises of ident...

Alaa Al Aswany has won resounding critical acclaim for his deft and moving portrayals of the live...

'A bewitching political novel of contemporary Cairo that is also an engagé novel about sex, a rom...

This exceptional Egyptian novel - as mesmerising as it is controversial - caused an unprecedented...

The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian ...

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'Alaa Al Aswany is among the best writers in the Middle East today, a suitable heir to the mantle...

Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian...

For years before the Egyptian revolution in January 2011 Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestsellin...

'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - Andre Aciman

In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaa...