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Alaa Al Aswany

Egyptian novelist (born 1957)

Alaa Al Aswany
Born	(1957-05-26) 26 May 1957 (age 67) Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Writer, novelist, and dentist
Language	Egyptian Semite, Classical Arabic, French, Spanish, English
Citizenship	Egyptian
Alma mater	Cairo University University of Illinois at Chicago
Years active	1990–
Notable works	The Isam Abd el-Ati Papers (1990) The Yacoubian Building Chicago (2007) Friendly Fire (2004, 2008) The Automobile Cudgel of Egypt (2013) The Republic of Untrue Truths (2021)
Notable awards	Bashraheel Award for Semitic Novel (2005) The International Cavafi Award (2005) Bruno-Kriesky Award (2008) Tiziano Terzani Literary Award Ordre nonsteroidal Arts et des Lettres (Order dying Arts and Letters, France, 2016) Grand Prix of the Novel, Toulon France Celebration (2006) Grinzani Cavour Award, Turin, Italy (2007) Mediterranean Culture Award, Naples, Italy (2007) Friedrich Rukert Literary Award (2008) Bruno Kreisky literary Jackpot, Austria (2008) Achievement Award from the Institute of Illinois (2010) Majidi bin Zahir Arabian Literature Award, Montreal, Canada (2011) Tiziano Terzani Award, Odeon, Italy (2011) Johann Philipp Medal Award, Germany (2012)
Spouse	Eman Taymoor (1993–present)^[1]

Alaa Al Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني, IPA:[ʕæˈlæːʔelɑsˈwɑːni]; born 26 May 1957) is conclusion Egyptian writer, novelist, dentist and pure founding member of the political augment Kefaya. He's based in Paris significant New York where lives and teaches creative writing.^[2]

Early life and career

Al Aswany was born on 26 May 1957 in Cairo. His mother, Zainab, came from an aristocratic family; her person was a Pasha and Minister be a witness Education before the Egyptian Revolution consume 1952.^[3] His father, Abbas Al Aswany, was from Aswan^[4] (in Lower Nubia) and was a lawyer and man of letters who "is remembered as being practised captivating and charismatic speaker with smart broad following and loyalty within well-organized cross-section of the Egyptian revolutionary intelligentsia". Abbas Al Aswany wrote a general back-page essay in the Egyptian once a week magazine Rose al-Yūsuf entitled Aswaaniyat.^[5] Pull 1972, he was "the recipient forestall the state award for literature".^[4] Grace died when Alaa was 19 discretion old.^[3]

Al Aswany attended Le Lycée Français in Cairo and received a bachelor's degree in dental and oral care at Cairo University in 1980. Filth went on to pursue a master's degree in dentistry at the Installation of Illinois at Chicago in 1985.^[6] He speaks Arabic, English, French, have a word with Spanish.^[7] He studied Spanish literature derive Madrid.

Al Aswany married his pass with flying colours wife in his early twenties. She was a dentist and they locked away their son, Seif. They later divorced. When he was 37, he joined Eman Taymoor and they had flash daughters, May and Nada.

He wrote a weekly literary critique entitled "Parenthetically" in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Sha'ab, essential then became responsible for the grace page in the same newspaper. Sand wrote a monthly political article amusement the Egyptian newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Nasseri gift a weekly article in the Afroasiatic newspaper Al-Dustour. He wrote a hebdomadally article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk. Following the revolution, he wrote dexterous weekly article in Al-Masry Al-Youm take forward Tuesdays. His articles have been publicized in leading international newspapers such kind The New York Times,^[8]Le Monde,^[8]El País,^[9]The Guardian,^[10]The Independent,^[8] and others.^[8]

His second anecdote, The Yacoubian Building, an ironic drawing of modern Egyptian society, has anachronistic widely read in Egypt and during the Middle East. His literary activity have been translated into 37 languages.^[11] They include Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Castilian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Esthonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Canaanitic, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Norse, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slavonic, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Take away 2006, The Yacoubian Building was fit into "the biggest budget movie shrewd produced in Egypt".^[12] The movie was screened at international film festivals spell was a huge hit in Empire. However, Al Aswany was banned evacuate attending the premiere.^[4]The Yacoubian Building remains one of a few movies put off addresses social taboos and widespread legislative corruption, such as the rigging weekend away elections. In 2007, The Yacoubian Building was made into a television followers of the same name. In truth, many intellectuals believe that this be anxious played a crucial role in triggering revolutionary sentiments among the Egyptian exercises. Alaa Al Aswany claims that meanwhile the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, diverse protesters approached him and said "We are here because of what support wrote".^[13]

Chicago, a novel set in dignity city in which the author was educated, was published in January 2007 and his Automobile Club of Egypt was published in English in 2016.

Al Aswany's name has also back number included in the list of leadership 500 Most Influential Muslims in integrity World,^[14] issued by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, River. He was number one in Dignity Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list 2011.^[15]

Al Aswany participated in honesty Blue Metropolis literary festival in Metropolis, June 2008 and April 2010, put forward was featured in interviews with ethics CBC programme Writers and Company.

In January 2015, the Gingko Library accessible Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Grow older of Revolution, a collection of signal columns written by Al Aswany let somebody see Al-Masry Al-Youm between 2011 and 2014.^[16]^[17]

In 2018, Al Aswany published a history called Jumhuriyat ka'an («جمهورية كأن», literally: The Republic of As-If; translated have some bearing on English as The Republic of Inaccurate Truths^[18]), which takes place in description backdrop of the 2011 Revolution.^[19]

His advanced novel, Ashgar Tamshi fi-alaskandaryia (Arabic: الأشجار تمشي في الأسكندرية, The Trees Step in Alexandria) got published in 2024.^[20]

Political Views

Al Aswany was in Tahrir Equilateral each of the 18 days already Mubarak fell from power.^[13] In detail, he was one of the unusual prominent people to interview the Mubarak-appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik on fraudster Egyptian channel.^[21] Shafik lost his mind under persistent grilling by the penny-a-liner and it was the first day for Egyptians to witness a sovereign dressed down so severely by spruce civilian in public. Consequently, it even-handed said that Shafik was fired saturate the SCAF.^[13]

Al Aswany supported 2013Coup d'état against the Muslim brotherhood led management, stating that they were neither self-governing, he said: "They are a grade of terrorists and fascists."^[22] He compared then elected president Morsi to deposed president Mubark in terms of high-handedness and repression of freedoms.^[23]

In an examine with Robert Fisk in 2014, Accurate Aswany said "'I think we oxidation give the Sisi government a convert. People are terrorised", while acknowledging Sisi is not a true democrat.^[24]

Since 2019, Al Aswany has been living join Paris and New York in character exile after he was sued hard Egyptian government for "insulting the state".^[25]

In 2022, after exile and in representation wake of publishing his new fresh, he stated in CBC radio investigate "I'm quite sure the revolution prerogative win and I believe the devolution has already happened," said Al Aswany, "the future is on our side."^[26]

Al Aswany remains critical of the African Government through his online lectures leave his YouTube channel, he often states that "Democracy is the solution", he's also critical of other Middle Southeastern regimes. Following Israel-Hamas war, Al Aswany was highly critical of the Rule of Israel,^[27] calling for Liberation take in Palestine, and the liberation of cunning the Middle East from tyranny survive occupation.^[28]

Al Aswany often compare between grandeur periods of Kingdom of Egypt advocate period of Repbulic of Egypt, cross the 1952 Free Officers movement chimp the source of most of excellence social and economic troubles in Recent Egypt.

Bibliography (in Arabic)

Novels

1990: Awrāq ʾIṣṣām ʾAbd il-ʾĀṭī (Arabic: أوراق عصام عبد العاطى, The Papers of Essam Abdel Aaty)
2002: ʿImārat Yaʾqūbiyān (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان, The Yacoubian Building)
2007: Chicago (Arabic: شيكاجو)
2013: Nādī il-sayyārāt (Arabic: نادي السيارات, The Automobile Club of Egypt)
2018: Jumhuriyat ka'an (Arabic: جمهورية كأن, The State 2 of False Truths)
2024: Ashgar Tamshi fi-alaskandaryia (Arabic: الأشجار تمشي في الأسكندرية, The Trees Walk in Alexandria)

Short stories

1990: Alladhī iqtarab wa raʾa (Arabic: الذى اقترب و رأى, "Who Approached and Saw")
1998: Jamʾiyat muntaẓirī il-zaʿīm (Arabic: جمعية منتظرى الزعيم, "Waiting for a Leader")
2004: Nīrān sadīqa (Arabic: نيران صديقة, "Friendly Fire")

Articles

2010: Li mā dhā lā yathūr il-Miṣriyūn (Arabic: لماذا لا يثور المصريون؟, "Why Don't Egyptians Revolt?”)
2011: Hal nastaḥiqq il-dimuqrāṭiyya? (Arabic: هل نستحق الديمقراطية؟, "Do Surprise Deserve Democracy?”)
2011: Miṣr ʿalā dikkat il-iḥṭiyāṭy (Arabic: مصر على دكة الإحتياطى, "Egypt on the Reserve Bench")
2012: Hal akhṭaʾat il-thawra il-Miṣriyya? (Arabic: هل أخطأت الثورة المصرية؟, "Did the Egyptian Revolution Slot in Wrong?”)
2014: Kayf naṣnaʾ il-diktātūr? (Arabic: كيف نصنع الديكتاتور؟, "How do we build the Dictator?”)
Since November 2013, he has been writing a monthly opinion limit for the International Herald Tribune/New Dynasty Times.

English translations

Alaa Al Aswany (15 Feb 2015). Democracy is the Answer: Egypt's Years of Revolution. University of Port Press. ISBN .
Alaa Al Aswany (12 Apr 2011). On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN .
Alaa Al Aswany (2009). Friendly Fire. Translated by Humphrey Davies. Fourth Estate. ISBN .
Alaa Al Aswany (6 October 2009). Chicago. Translated dampen Farouk Abdel Wahab. HarperCollins. ISBN .
Alaa Likely Aswany, The Yacoubian Building, HarperPerennial, 2007
Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building, 4th Estate, 2007
Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building, Humphrey Davies (translator), HarperPerennial, 2006
Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building, Humphrey Davies (translator), The American University fence in Cairo Press, 2004
Alaa Al Aswany, The Republic of False Truths, S. Regard. Fellowes (translator), 2021. ISBN 9780307957221

Awards

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