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The Automobile Club of Egypt : a novel
The beating death of a once-respected Egyptian landowner-turned-servant in a luxury club subjects his widow and sons to poverty and turbulent politics that force the club's oppressed employees to make a life-risking choice.
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Democracy is the Answer
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it-and try to push it in productive directions-than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany used his weekly newspaper column forAl-Masry Al-Youmto propound the revolution's ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath.This book presents, for the first time in English, all of Al-Aswany's columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, and a portrait of a country and a people in flux. Each column is presented along with a context-setting introduction, as well as notes and a glossary, all designed to give non-Egyptian readers the background they need to understand the events and figures that Al-Aswany chronicles. The result is a definitive portrait of Egypt today-how it got here, and where it might be headed.
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Return of the spirit
First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's novel follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Though often cited as an apprenticeship novel in the vein of Joyce's \"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\" with a touch of failed romance لa la Goethe's \"Sorrow of Young Werther,\" Al-Hakim's classic is most recognized for being a political novel that illustrates the way one man's spiritual awakening ties to a political awakening of a nation.
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