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Author | : ʻAlāʼ Aswānī |
Publisher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789774248627 |
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The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt -- where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent vision of society may yet prevail. Alaa Al Aswany's novel caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002 and has remained the world's best selling novel in the Arabic language since.
Author | : Alaa Al Aswany |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525659331 |
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A "glorious, humane novel" (The Observer) about the Egyptian revolution, taking us inside the battle raging between those in power and those prepared to lay down their lives in the defense of freedom—this globally-acclaimed narrative from one of the foremost writers in the Arab world is still banned across much of the region. Cairo, 2011. After decades under a repressive regime, tensions are rising in the city streets. No one is out of reach of the revolution. There is General Alwany, a high-ranking member of the government's security agency, a pious man who loves his family yet won't hesitate to torture enemies of the state; Asma, a young teacher who chafes against the brazen corruption at her school; Ashraf, an out-of-work actor who is having an affair with his maid and who gets pulled into Tahrir Square through a chance encounter; Nourhan, a television personality who loyally defends those in power; and many more. As these lives collide, a new generation finds a voice, love blossoms across class divides, and the revolution gains strength. Even the general finds himself at a crossroads as his own daughter joins the protests. Yet the old regime will not give up without a fight. With an unforgettably vivid cast of characters and a heart-pounding narrative banned across much of the region, Alaa Al Aswany gives us a deeply human portrait of the Egyptian Revolution, and an impassioned retelling of his country's turbulent recent history.
Author | : Alaa Al Aswany |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2015-08-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8184007310 |
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A rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post–World War II Cairo Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, formerly a well-respected landowner now in the grip of penury, moves his family to Cairo and takes on menial work at the Automobile Club—a place of refuge and luxury for its European members, but one where Egyptians may appear only as servants. Alku, the lifelong Nubian servant of Egypt’s corrupt king, runs the show in all but name. The servants, a squabbling, humorous, and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear: beaten for their mistakes, their wages dependent on Alku’s whims. When Abd el-Aziz’s pride gets the better of him and he stands up for himself, his death—as much from shame as from his injuries after Alku has him beaten—leaves his widow further impoverished and two of his sons obliged to work in the Club. As the family is drawn into the turbulent politics of Egypt—public and private—both servants and masters are subsumed by the country’s social upheaval. Soon, the Egyptians of the Automobile Club face a stark choice: to live safely but without dignity as servants, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
Author | : Alaa Al Aswany |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007314515 |
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In Friendly Fire, Al Aswany paints the minute ties that hold together a family, a school classroom or the relationship between a man and a woman. But he also dissects modern Egyptian society and reveals the hypocrisy, violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in crisis. In Friendly Fire, readers will find again the vivid, passionate characters of today's Cairo, clamouring to be heard
Author | : Alaa Al Aswany |
Publisher | : Haus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2019-12-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1912208601 |
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The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.
Author | : Alaa al Aswany |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-03-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007320299 |
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Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany.
Author | : Waguih Ghali |
Publisher | : New Amsterdam Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1461663245 |
Download Beer in the Snooker Club Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Waguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club was the only book written by Ghali before his suicide in 1968. "Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor."–James Marcus of The Nation
Author | : Ghassān Kanafānī |
Publisher | : Three Continents Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780894108570 |
Download Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher and Palestinina activist Ghassan Kanafani includes 'Men in the Sun,' the basis of the film 'The Deceived.' Also in the volume are 'The Land of Sad Oranges', 'If You Were A Horse', 'The Falcon' and 'Letter from Gaza.'
Author | : Rosemary Mahoney |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007-07-11 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0316007323 |
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Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.
Author | : Yūsuf Zaydān |
Publisher | : Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Arabic fiction |
ISBN | : 9781848874299 |
Download Azazeel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Azazeel takes 5th century quarrels in the Coptic Church as the ground for an ambitious investigation into good and evil, faith and doubt.' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent In this haunting and controversial novel, Youssef Ziedan confronts issues as vital today as they were nearly two millenia ago.