Books by Alaa Al Aswany
The Yacoubian Building
by Alaa Al Aswany & Humphrey Davies
The Yacoubian Builiding is celebrated, possibly even notorious, for being such a bestseller - originally in Egypt and the Arab world and subsequently in the West, in English and in many other languages. It’s beautifully written, it’s incredibly readable, it’s often very funny and I suspect it will go on being read for many years as a kind of portrait of Egypt on the eve of the events that are taking place now.
Interviews where books by Alaa Al Aswany 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.
