Alaa Al Aswany
- January 6, 2024
- Writer
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Alaa Al Aswany Biography
| Name | Alaa Al Aswany |
| Birthday | May 26 |
| Birth Year | 1957 |
| Place Of Birth | Cairo |
| Home Town | Cairo |
| Birth Country | Egypt |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Parents | Abbas Al-Aswany |
| Spouse | Eman Taymoor |
Alaa Al Aswany is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 26, 1957 in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. Al-Aswany was born on 26 May 1957. His mother, Zainab, came from an aristocratic family; her uncle was a Pasha and Minister of Education before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. His father, Abbas Al-Aswany, was from Aswan (in Lower Nubia) and was a lawyer and writer who “is remembered as being a captivating and charismatic speaker with a broad following and loyalty within a cross-section of the Egyptian revolutionary intelligentsia”. Abbas Al-Aswany wrote a regular back-page essay in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rose al-Yūsuf entitled Aswaaniyat. In 1972, he was “the recipient of the state award for literature”. He died when Alaa was 19 years old.
Chicago, a novel set in the city in which the author was educated, was published in January 2007 and his Automobile Club of Egypt was published in English in 2016.
In October 2010 the Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information (IPCRI) said it was offering its Hebrew readers the rare privilege of reading the best-selling Egyptian novel The Yacoubian Building. While Al-Aswany refused for the book to be translated into Hebrew and published in Israel, a volunteer had translated it and IPCRI wanted to offer it for free to expand cultural awareness and understanding in the region. Al-Aswany was deeply frustrated by this, as he rejected the idea of normalizing with Israel, and accused the IPCRI and the translator of piracy and theft. Consequently, he complained to the International Publishers Association.
On 27 October 2013, The Blaze ran an article claiming that Al-Aswany is “an anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist”.
His second novel, The Yacoubian Building, an ironic depiction of modern Egyptian society, has been widely read in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. His literary works have been translated into 31 languages: Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In 2006, The Yacoubian Building was adapted into “the biggest budget movie ever produced in Egypt”. The movie was screened at international film festivals and was a huge hit in Egypt. However, Al-Aswany was banned from attending the premiere. The Yacoubian Building is one of a few movies that addresses social taboos and widespread governmental corruption, such as the rigging of elections. In fact, many intellectuals believe that this work played a crucial role in triggering revolutionary sentiments among the Egyptian people. Alaa Al-Aswany claims that during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, many protesters approached him and said “We are here because of what you wrote”. In 2007, The Yacoubian Building was made into a television series of the same name.
Alaa Al Aswany Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Alaa Al Aswany is one of the richest Writer from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alaa Al Aswany 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Alaa Al-Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني , IPA: [ʕæˈlæːʔ elɑsˈwɑːni] ; born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
Aswany attended Le Lycée Français in Cairo and received a bachelor’s degree in dental and oral medicine at Cairo University in 1980. He went on to pursue a master’s degree in dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. He speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish. He studied Spanish literature in Madrid.
Al-Aswany participated in the Blue Metropolis literary festival in Montreal, June 2008 and April 2010, and was featured in interviews with the CBC programme Writers and Company.
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