Alaa Al Aswany, author portrait
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Alaa Al Aswany

ALAA AL ASWANY is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Yacoubian Building, the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years, with more than a million copies sold around the world; Chicago, named by Newsday as the best translated novel of 2006; and, most recently, The Automobile Club of Egypt. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and published in more than one hundred countries. He has received several international awards, including the Grinzane Cavour Prize, and in 2016 he was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. Originally trained as a dentist, he retains his own dental practice in Cairo.
The Republic of False Truths
The Automobile Club of Egypt
On the State of Egypt

Books

The Republic of False Truths
The Automobile Club of Egypt
On the State of Egypt

Books for LGBTQIA+ History Month

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