![]() ![]() I was a student at Cairo University, in the school of dentistry-and by that time my father had passed away. “This is the greatest novelist,” he told me, “and you'll be too young to understand.” So I read didn’t Dostoevsky until I was 20 years old. He spoke to me by phone from Cairo.Īlaa Al Aswany: My father, a writer as well, advised me not to read Dostoyevsky before university. Aswany, who is a practicing dentist, is also the author of the novels Chicago and The Papers of Essam Abdel Aaty. The New Yorker has called Aswany “the most popular writer in Egypt and the most prominent Egyptian writer in the world.” The Yacoubian Building, which became a movie and then a TV series, has been translated into 23 languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide. ![]() With an ensemble performance that recalls his most famous book, The Yacoubian Building, Aswany shows a society at the boiling point, as tensions mount and a nation prepares to fight for a better, freer future. The book subverts the opulent setting by casting its narrative lot with the underclass, the servants and sycophants who serve oppressive masters but mock them behind their backs. The titular club is a kind of DMV for elite European colonizers, in a country where most Egyptians aren’t allowed to drive. The Automobile Club of Egypt is set in 1940s Cairo, during the last days of British colonial rule. ![]() ![]() Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans Joe Pinsker ![]()
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