Despite its seemingly incongruous title, Alaa Al Aswany’s novel Chicago is filled with characters who reflect the conflicting political and social currents churning through Egypt today. There is Nagi, ...

Alaa Al Aswany, one of the most renowned novelists of the Arab world, almost gave up writing. After Egypt’s state publisher rejected his first two novels in the 1990s, he published them himself, ...

Alaa al-Aswany is several people, rolled into one. He is Egypt's biggest-selling novelist. He is a dentist. And as of this summer, he is also one of the most vocal cheerleaders for the Egyptian army's ...

Renowned Egyptian novelist Alaa Al-Aswany intrigued fans at the Cairo Opera House at the launch of his new book 'The Cars Club' Al-Aswany launched his latest novel The Cars Club, a fiction set in ...

Egyptian men need to regain their civilized views of women and cast off the Wahhabi thinking that prevents equality in the country, writes Egyptian author and veteran liberal activist Alaa al-Aswany.

Egypt’s bestselling author on writing ‘the novel of the Arab spring’ and why he feels it is his duty to speak out ‘Those 18 days were the most beautiful days of my life,” Egyptian novelist Alaa ...

Alaa Al Aswany — a best-selling Egyptian novelist, dentist and political activist — speaks to host Robert Siegel about the unraveling of the Mubarak regime, and prospects for a democratic state. As we ...

Alaa Al-Aswany is Egypt’s preeminent novelist. His 2002 best-seller The Yacoubian Building highlighted the political corruption, moral duplicity, and economic inequality of contemporary Egypt, and ...

Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and activist Alaa Al Aswany and American poet Linda Gregerson read selections from their work on Feb. 7 as part of the 2017-2018 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series ...

Alaa Al-Aswany is more than just a novelist; he is also a prominent political activist and a founder of the Kefaya (Enough) movement, established to oppose the Mubarak regime in 2004. A recent event ...