The Yacoubian Building

Name: The Yacoubian Building
Author: Alaa Al Aswany

by Alaa Al Aswany

Interconnected stories of tenants in a Cairo apartment building navigating love, ambition, and moral compromise

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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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