Alaa al-Aswany

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About Alaa al-Aswany Alaa al-Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني‎),Egyptain Arabic(Masri) "علاء الاسوانى" (born 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.Life and works Trained as a dentist in Egypt and Chicago, it took him 9 years to earn his degree from Chicago National Universtiy where he spent 17 years in his life, el-Aswany has contributed numerous articles to Egyptian newspapers on literature, politics, and social issues. His second novel, The Yacoubian Building, an ironic depiction of modern Egyptian society, has been widely read in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. It has been translated into English, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Greek and Dutch, and was adapted into a film (2006) and a television series (2007) of the same name. Chicago, a novel set in the city in which the author was educated, was published in January 2007. Al-Aswany participated in the Blue Metropolis in Montreal, June 2008, and was featured in interviews with the CBC programme "Writers and Company"

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Egypt Writers & Authors Ranking

Rank Person Name Total
3. Tammam Hassan 2152
4. Abdul Rahman Yusuf 1287
5. A. Khaled Towfik 669
6. Mustafa Mahmoud 452
7. Alaa al-Aswany 380
8. Nabil Farouk 203
9. Ihsan Abdel Quddous 186
10. Ayman Zohry 170
11. Belal Fadl 108

Writers & Authors Ranking

Rank Person Name Total
177. A.H. Salunkhe 415
178. Bernardo Atxaga J. 415
179. Tamim al-Barghouti 402
180. F. Hüsnü Dağlarca 386
181. Alaa al-Aswany 380
182. Lucian Blaga 375
183. Rubem Braga 369
184. Speenghar Ahmadzai 363
185. Gil Vicente 362