“The Yacoubian Building”

“The Yacoubian Building”, a novel by Alaa al Aswany written in 2002, can be described as an Egyptian social novel. In the same genre of Naguib Mahfouz’s writing about Egypt in the 50s, Al Aswany writes about Egyptian society half a century later. Once considered a luxury establishment when built in...

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History

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