![]() ![]() Yet despite dealing with serious subjects, the experience of reading the novel is more akin to a guilty literary pleasure than a civic duty. It engages with corruption, homophobia, sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism all sensitive and controversial issues in contemporary Egyptian society. ![]() ![]() This addictively readable evocation of Cairo at a time of political and social ferment, during the first Gulf War, is both a damning critique and a love letter to a city and its inhabitants. The Yacoubian Building has topped the bestseller lists for over two years, been adapted for the screen by Marwan Hamid and inspired impassioned cultural debate. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact that Alaa Al Aswany's novel has had in Egypt. ![]()
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