Alaa al-Aswany, Egyptian author and activist, is being sued by the Egyptian military for insulting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Alaa al-Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building and critic of the political regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, will face a lawsuit filed by the military authority of Egypt. According to reporting… Read more »
Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany
Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s efforts to purge mosque libraries of “any book, irrespective of its author or publishing house, that contradicts the teachings of… Read more »
Arabic translator Jonathan Wright settles with Alaa al-Aswany, and why I’m glad Wright spoke up
When, this fall, Arabic translator Jonathan Wright posted an open letter on his blog detailing how very far things had gone south with his translation of Egyptian author Alaa al-Aswany’s… Read more »
The Guardian’s “Best Books on Egypt” list underwhelms…to put it mildly
When you’re making sweeping generalizations about what to read to get to know another country—its history, its inhabitants, and its literature— the honorable route to take is one of compensatory… Read more »