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Another author of ours in the news lately is Alaa Al-Aswany. A fixture in the Egyptian opposition movement, he has appeared on NPR, PRI, and in The Guardian recently to discuss the situation in Egypt. His 2006 book, The Yacoubian Building, paints a fictional but very realistic portrait of life in Cairo—the life that led to the current protests. I love when fiction can help me understand what life is like in another part of the world, and I’m guessing many of you do too. Anyone read this one? Or others that function in the same way?
