An hour of Iftar coffee in the old Garden City Club, and Alaa Aswany almost – almost, I repeat – has me believing that General al-Sissi is the best military leader since Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the ...

The part-time dentist and author of 'The Yacoubian Building' has fallen foul of the Sisi administration Before he became a bestselling novelist, before he embarrassed Egypt’s former prime minister on ...

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 ...

So here's the real news. Alaa al-Aswany, dentist, revolutionary (he'd like that bit) and author of the astonishing The Yacoubian Building, is producing a new novel. He writes in the morning when he's ...

Well-known Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany has sparked online criticism after an interview with him was featured in Israeli media, discussing his latest works. The interview with Alaa Al Aswany was ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hot debate on whether to allow an Islamist channel to record the discussion lead by liberal author Al-Aswany on extremist thinker Sayed Kotb nearly overshadowed the topic itself Egyptians' tolerance ...

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.

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, ...