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21 produkter
Republic of False Truths
Häftad, 2022
142 kr
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'Glorious' Observer'Amazing' André Aciman'Masterly' Sunday Times'Blistering' Financial TimesGeneral Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy, and the oppressive …
Chicago
Häftad, 2009
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
177 kr
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Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players are …
Automobile Club of Egypt
Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite - the way they always have done, it seems.But soon the social upheaval out on the street will break its way through the club's gilded doors, and …
Yacoubian Building
Häftad, 2007
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
139 kr
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This exceptional Egyptian novel – as mesmerising as it is controversial – caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in Arabic.Welcome to the Yacoubian Building, Cairo: once grand, now dilapidated, and full of stories and passion. Some live in squalor on its rooftop while others …
Chicago
E-bok, 2009
96 kr
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Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany.A medley of Egyptian and American lives collides on the campus of the University of Illinois Medical Center in a post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound. Among the players …
Friendly Fire
E-bok, 2009
89 kr
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The new book from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the international bestsellers The Yacoubian Building and ChicagoFriendly Fire is a novella and collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling The Yacoubian Building. As in that novel, Al Aswany dissects modern Egyptian society …
Yacoubian Building
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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August Book Sense PickA fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed ''scientist of women.'' A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward. An earnest, devout young doorman, …
Friendly Fire
Stories
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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Friendly Fire, the first collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, acclaimed author of Chicago and The Yacoubian Building, deftly explores the lives of contemporary Egyptians. Here are stories of generational conflict, corruption, repression, infidelity, and the dangerous clashing of western …
Chicago
A Novel
E-bok, 2008
88 kr
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The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs.Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 …
On the State of Egypt
What Made the Revolution Inevitable
E-bok, 2011
240 kr
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“Alaa Al Aswany is among the best writers in the Middle East today, a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz, his great predecessor.” –Jay Parini, The Guardian (UK) From one of Egypt’s most acclaimed novelists, here is a vivid chronicle of Egyptian society, with penetrating analysis of …
Republic of False Truths
E-bok, 2021
115 kr
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From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building'Glorious' Observer'Amazing' André Aciman'Masterly' Sunday Times'Blistering' Financial TimesGeneral Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by …
Democracy is the Answer
Egypt`s Years of Revolution
Av Alaa Al Aswany, Russell Harris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
448 kr
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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 Alba Al Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al Aswany …
Dictatorship Syndrome
Häftad, 2021
113 kr
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The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated, and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, …
Republic as if
E-bok, 2024
196 kr
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About Cairo and January - about Mazen, Asma, Major General Alwani, Sheikh Shamil, and many other figures who formed the mosaic of the revolution. A shocking, terrifying, and exciting novel about thwarting the revolution through the brutal alliance of religious, authoritarian, and media discourse. …
Yacoubian Building
E-bok, 2024
103 kr
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The Cairo that Alaa Al-Aswany describes is a harsh city that subjects its residents to many concessions and bargains.Inhabiting the Yacoubian Building in central Cairo are heroes, rich and poor, good and bad, floundering in the same predicament: thwarting Taha''s dreams of a job in the police …
chicago
E-bok, 2024
140 kr
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In the city of Chicago, and in the Department of Histology at the University of Illinois, they meet students from Egyptian envoys and immigrant professors, united and separated by love, politics, and estrangement. They are swept away by nostalgia for the past and the homeland. They cannot escape …
