The Yacoubian Building

Literature & Fiction

ALAA AL ASWANY

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

Chicago

Farouk Abdel Wahab

Friendly Fire

Harper-perennial

The Yacoubcan Building

From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building\n' Superb' Sunday Times 
'Searing' Daily Mail 
'Blistering' Financial Times 
'Glorious' Observer 
'Amazing' Andr � Aciman\nGeneral Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.\nUnder the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy, and the oppressive military. Now, however, the regime faces its greatest crisis. The idealistic young from different backgrounds - engineers, teachers, medical students, and among them the general's daughter - have come together to challenge the status quo. Euphoria mounts as Mubarak is toppled and love blossoms across class divides, but the general and his friends mount a devastating counter-attack.

Republic Of False Truths

Faber&Faber

General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.\nUnder the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy, and the oppressive military.\nNow, however, the regime faces its greatest crisis. The idealistic young from different backgrounds - engineers, teachers, medical students, and among them the general's daughter - have come together to challenge the status quo. Euphoria mounts as Mubarak is toppled, love blossoms across class divides, but the general and his friends mount a devastating counter-attack.\nWith its vivid cast of characters, The Republic of False Truths offers a deeply moving and passionate fictional account of the trauma of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

Republic Of False Truths EXPORT

On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak's departure. This was the moment he and other pro-democracy activists had been working towards, but could never be sure would come. Why did Egypt unexpectedly revolt? In a weekly newspaper column Al Aswany had been exposing the injustices of the Mubarak regime for years, arguing that 'democracy is the solution'. Here the most incisive, prescient and urgent of these pieces are gathered together in English for the first time. He examines the conditions that made Egypt ripe for revolution, from Mubarak's monopoly on power and his determination to install his son as his successor, to the poverty in which half the population live. He also writes passionately about Egyptian society generally, including the treatment of women, free speech and the role of the State police. On the State of Egypt is a brilliant and devastating critique of Mubarak's rule, and an inspiring portrait of a people's determination to rise up and make their voices heard.

On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution

CANONGATE BOOKS *

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, , 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.

The Dictatorship Syndrome

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Haus Publishing

Chicago: A Modern Arabic Novel

The American University in Cairo Press

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