← Alaa Al AswanyOn the State of Egyptby Alaa Al AswanyEssays and reflections on Egypt's political, social, and cultural condition during turbulent timesFind on Amazon↗About the authorAlaa Al AswanyEgyptian novelist and dentist whose The Yacoubian Building was the bestselling Arabic novel for years, exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of Egyptian society under Mubarak.More by Alaa Al AswanyThe Yacoubian BuildingInterconnected stories of tenants in a Cairo apartment building navigating love, ambition, and moral compromise→Chicago→The Automobile Club of EgyptEarly twentieth-century Cairo through interwoven tales of a taxi club and its members→