Alaa Al Aswany
علاء الأسواني
Writer
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Egyptian novelist whose book The Yacoubian Building became an international bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
Alaa Al Aswany's 2002 novel The Yacoubian Building became one of the best-selling Arabic novels of the past several decades, later adapted into both a film and television series, and he has remained an outspoken political commentator alongside his fiction writing.
Representation
Independent