Alaa Al Aswany

The Automobile Club of Egypt

Early twentieth-century Cairo through interwoven tales of a taxi club and its members

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Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany

Egyptian novelist and dentist whose The Yacoubian Building was the bestselling Arabic novel for years, exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of Egyptian society under Mubarak.

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