Experts
Alaa Al Aswany
Author
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Alaa Al Aswany on Anti-Semitism
Author Alaa Al Aswany says problems in Egypt arose with Israel, not with the Jews. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Belief
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Alaa Al Aswany on America’s Ignorance Problem
Alaa Al Aswany on the culture of myopia. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Politics & Policy
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Alaa Al Aswany on Promoting Democracy in the Arab World
Alaa Al Aswany sees the potential for democracy across the entire Arab world. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Politics & Policy
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Alaa Al Aswany on Promoting Tolerance in the Arab World
A negative interpretation of Islam adds to the forces against tolerance Alaa Al Aswany believes. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Belief
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Alaa Al Aswany on a Clash of Civilizations
If we just understood that we are all human beings first and foremost, we would not be witnessing many of the struggles we are seeing today. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Belief
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Alaa Al Aswany on the Human Element (in Literature and Life)
How a writer captures the human element will determine how long a piece of literature will last. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Alaa Al Aswany on His Creative Process
All writers have to find their own rhythm, but Alaa Al Aswany finds his between 6 and 10:30 am. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Alaa Al Aswany on His Book ‘Chicago’
Alaa Al Aswany explains how a University of Illinois Histology department becomes a microcosm for the world. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Alaa Al Aswany on Literary Translations
Alaa Al Aswany reveals the key to translating literature into other languages. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Alaa Al Aswany’s Favorite Writers
Young Alaa As Aswany’s “garden full of flowers” had Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Marquez and Hemingway growing in it. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
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Alaa Al Aswany on Going from Dentist to Novelist
Alaa Al Aswany talks about the impossibility of making a living as a writer in Egypt. Read More
February 9, 2009 | In History
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Alaa Al Aswany on Writing About Sex
Alaa Al Aswany examines the human body. Read More
February 8, 2009 | In Arts & Culture
Alaa Al Aswany is the author of The Yacoubian Building, which has been translated into twenty languages and caused an immediate scandal due to its sexual frankness when first published in Egypt in 2002. It has since been made into a film and a television series. Al Aswany is also the author of Chicago, and a story collection, Friendly Fire, to be published in English in 2009. He is a founding member of the political movement, Kefaya, which is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change, a grassroots coalition which draws it support from across Egypt’s political spectrum. Al Aswana lives in Cairo where he also works as a journalist and dentist.
