Books by Ahmed Alaidy
On Being Abbas El Abd
by Ahmed Alaidy & Humphrey Davies
This is a wickedly complex tale. People debate what actually takes place in the book. It’s about a terminally grumpy twenty-something negotiating Cairo’s shopping malls and high-rises. The book as a whole reflects a culture that will be familiar to anybody in Egypt, who sits, as so much of Egypt does, at that meeting point between global culture -- of the internet and the cellphone and so on -- and Egyptian street life, the general craziness (and in the case of this book the literal craziness) of Cairo.
Interviews where books by Ahmed Alaidy were recommended
Best Contemporary Egyptian Literature, recommended by Humphrey Davies
One of the leading translators of contemporary Egyptian literature, Humphrey Davies, gives us his top choices.
