BOOK REVIEWS

CHICAGO

A Novel by ALAA AL ASWANY

Publisher: HarperCollins (New York), 2008

Reviewed by Adel Iskandar
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Al-Aswany's alter-ego is that of a professional Cairo dentist
 (photo: Ammar Abd Rabbo)

 


 

 


Al Aswany's first blockbuster Novel.

Aswany on a Nile felucca in April 2008 (photo by: Stephanie Sinclair/VII Network, The New York Times)


Cover of the film The Yacoubian Building, which featured a star-studded cast, was the highest budget film in regional cinema

 

 

 


Reviewer Adel Iskandar and Amal Daraiseh with author Alaa El Aswany following a presentation on October 24, 2008 in Washington, DC's Politics & Prose

 

Adel Iskandar is the Editor of the Ambassadors Online Magazine and a visiting scholar in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. Email: doolaz@gmail.com. 

 


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